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Laura Fitzgerald

Laura Fitzgerald is an emerging visual artist from a small mountain farm in Co. Kerry, working across drawing, painting, text & video. Her work centres around ideas of place, ancestral memory, narrative structures and ownership. Laura Fitzgerald’s work is trying to be useful. And while she is worried that making art is – in fact – useless, she seeks solace in the notion it can be so radically useless that it can resist the profit-driven impetus of modern life. In a sense the work is sincerely absurdist in its own endeavours. While looking at ideas relating to the neoliberal turn, she concentrates on using humour as a tool; an antidepressant and a coping strategy to everyday lived experience.

http://laurafitzgeraldfrominch.com/

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Through a humorous lens she points to problematic and absurd aspects within complex political and personal situations. Her work reveals both the difficulty of proposing a solution and is yet interested and driven by a multiplicity of options or proposals for new imaginative states. Fitzgerald is curious about the similarities drawn through the act of portraiture, whether of landscape or of a person, and how these attempts at portraiture often penetrate the inner world of oneself, the artist.

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Education

2011 – 2013 Fine Art Painting Masters, Royal College of Art, London
2004 – 2007 Fine Art Painting BA First Class Hons, National College of Art and Design Dublin

Residencies

2018 – 2020 Fire Station Artists’ Studios Dublin 2018
2018 WARP Artist Village, Eindhoven, Netherlands
2017 – 2018 Lucian Freud Residency, Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin, Ireland
2017 Tyrone Guthrie Centre, Residency Annaghmakerrig
2016 The International Studio & Curatorial Program (ISCP), New York
2015 The International Studio & Curatorial Program (ISCP), New York

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She is a recipient of the Visual Arts Bursary Award (Arts Council of Ireland) for 2022-23 and received the Golden Fleece award in 2020.

Recent exhibitions include: Right-of-way at Wexford Art Centre (as part of the Wexford Emergent Award), She’ll Give You All She Has, at South Tipperary Art Centre with artists Orla Barry and Chloe McKeown, A Growing Enquiry: Art, Agriculture, reconciling values at the RHA gallery March 2022, An Animate Land at Roscommon Art Centre, May 2022, with artists Miriam O’Connor and Marian Balfe. I have made a place, at the Crawford Art Gallery Art, Cork City from June 2021, the 39th EVA International with Fantasy Farming, 2020, at Limerick City Gallery of Art, the site-specific mountain-based artwork Cosmic Granny, 2019, in Inch, Co. Kerry, and Lucian’s Neighbours, 2018, at the Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin.

She recently completed on a three-month residency at the Bemis Center for Contemporary Arts, in Omaha, Nebraska, USA.

Solo Exhibitions

2023 Right of Way, Wexford, Ireland

2020 HEADCASE, RHA Ashford Gallery, Dublin, Ireland
2019 Please Proceed as Normal/Laura Fitzgerald, curated by Anne Mullee, Courthouse Gallery & S tudios, Ennistymon, Co Clare, Ireland
2017 Blue Monkey Film Night presents Laura Fitzgerald, Field Research, curated by Judith Alder, Towner Art Gallery, Eastbourne, United Kingdom
2014 Work Related Anxieties, WW Gallery, London, United Kingdom

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