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| 1948 |
Born Melbourne, Australia |
| 1976 |
Diploma of Fine Arts, Tasmania School of Art, Hobart |
| 1977-78 |
Lived in Hydra, Greece |
| 1980 |
Returned
to Australia to work on the National Times and, after it’s much
lamented demise, the Australian Financial Review and The Sydney Morning
Herald. |
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Illustrator, The Guardian, London |
| 1980-89 |
Illustrator, The National Times |
| 1990 - |
Illustrator, The Sydney Morning Herald |
Solo Exhibitions | | | 2008 | 'Upcoming Exhibition', Australian Galleries, Sydney | | 2006 | 'Pattern and Palimpsest', Australian Galleries, Melbourne | | 2005 | 'Pattern', Australian Galleries, Sydney | | 2004 | ‘Here And There’, Australian Galleries, Sydney
| | 2003 | ‘Darkness at Noon’, Australian Galleries, Sydney
| | 2000 | ‘Mornington Peninsula Paintings’, Australian Galleries, Melbourne
| | 1999 | ‘Two Cities 1996-1999’, Australian Galleries, Sydney
| | 1996 | ‘Recent Paintings’, Australian Galleries, Sydney
| | 1991 | Joshua McClelland Print Room, Melbourne
| | 1980 | Ago Gallery, Berlin
| | 1976 | Gallery One, Hobart
| | 1969 | Strines Gallery, Melbourne (as Michael York) | | 1982-90_Macquarie Galleries, Sydney
| | 2005_'Pattern', Australian Galleries, Sydney2005_‘Hot Off The Press’, Australian Galleries, Sydney
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Group Exhibitions | | | 2007 | 'Small Pleasures: Painting and Sculpture', Australian Galleries, Melbourne | | 2006 | '50th Anniversary Exhibition', Australian Galleries, Melbourne | | 'New Year Group Exhibition', Australian Galleries, Melbourne | | 'Stock Show', Australian Galleries, Melbourne | | 'Summery', Australian Galleries, Sydney | | ‘View of Maitland from the riverbank’, Maitland Regional Art Gallery, Maitland
| | 2005 | 'End of Year Group Exhibition', Australian Galleries Painting and Sculpture, Sydney
| | ‘Small Important works’, Australian Galleries, Sydney
| | 2003 | ‘Summer Exhibition’, Australian Galleries, Sydney
| | 2002 | ‘Recent Work by Australian Galleries Artists’, Australian Galleries, Sydney
| | ‘Opening Exhibition’, Australian Galleries, Melbourne
| | 2000 | Artfair 2000, Melbourne
| | ‘Fine Paintings, Sculpture & Tapestry’, Australian Galleries, Sydney
| | 1999 | ‘Fine Paintings and Sculpture’, Australian Galleries, Sydney
| | 1998 | ‘Fine Paintings and Sculpture’, Australian Galleries, Sydney
| | Australian Contemporary Art Fair 6, Melbourne
| | 1997 | ‘Fine Paintings and Sculpture’, Australian Galleries, Sydney
| | 1987 | ‘Black and White Tradition’, Lewers Bequest and Penrith Regional Art Gallery |
BibliographyCartooning in Australia, 1987
Clare, John; “Allusive Silhouettes”, Craft Arts Magazine, 1985
Clare, John; “The Parallel Universes of Michael Fitzjames” Australian Art Review, Issue 9, November 2005 – Feb 2006
Cook, Patrick; “The artist as hurler of knuckle sandwiches”, National Times on Sunday, 1986
Kenneally, Catherine; “The Black and White Tradition”, Catalogue essay,
The Lewers Bequest and Penrith Regional Art Gallery, 1987
Lee, Phillip & Burn, Ian; Michael Fitzjames Drawings, Stained Wattle Press, Sydney, 1986
Maloon, Terence; “Present ignored for pastiche panache”, The Sydney Morning Herald, 1986
Marr, David; catalogue essay for Mornington Peninsula Paintings, Australian Galleries and
Michael Fitzjames, 2000
McClymont, Kate; “Matters of palettes and palate”, The Sydney Morning Herald, 2002
McCulloch, Alan revised & updated by McCulloch, Susan; Encyclopaedia of Australian Art, Allen & Unwin, St Leonards, NSW, 1994
McCulloch, Alan; The Herald, 1969
McInerney, Sally; “Drawing is still a case of dreaming on paper”, The Sydney Morning Herald, 1983
News Link, The Mercury, 1976
Smee, Sebastian, “City Views”, The Sydney Morning Herald, 1999
Smith, Bernard with Smith, Terry & Heathcote, Christopher;
Australian Painting 1788-2000, Oxford University Press, Melbourne, 2001
The Sydney Morning Herald Arts Writer, “Plays in black and white”, The Sydney Morning Herald, 1984
Walter, Betsy, Belle Magazine, 1983 CollectionsAustralian War Memorial, Canberra
La Trobe Library, Melbourne
Lewers Bequest, Penrith
Mitchell Library, Sydney
National Library, Canberra
PriceWaterhouseCoopers
Tasmanian Museum and Art Gallery Commissions
| 1999 |
Mural, Price Waterhouse building, Sussex Street, Sydney |
| 1996 |
Mural, Bistro Moncur, Woollahra, Sydney |
| 1988-89 |
Billboards for Chifley Square site, Sydney commissioned by Leo Schofield |
Selected ReviewsNew Year Group Exhibition | The Sunday Age, Preview | 6 Jan 2005
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