| |  | 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. | | | Illustrator, The Guardian, London | | 1980-89 | Illustrator, The National Times | | 1990 - | Illustrator, The Sydney Morning Herald |
Solo Exhibitions | | | 2009 | 'Air Water Earth City', Australian Galleries, Sydney | | ‘Art fellow, recent works 2009’, Sydney Grammar School
| | 2008 | 'Heaven and Earth', 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 Deakin University, Melbourne 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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