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About mirabel fitzgerald

Mirabel FitzGerald is an artist primarily working with printmaking and works-on-paper. She was educated at the Byam Shaw School of Art (NDD), London, 1965 and MFA (research) COFA, University of NSW, 1997.

Appointed as lecturer at Sydney College of the Arts, the Visual Arts faculty of The University of Sydney, in 1979 she taught and coordinated the Printmedia Studio until her retirement as Associate Professor in 2006.

She now lives and practises on the south coast of NSW.

FitzGerald has maintained an active studio practice, exhibiting continuously since 1965 in solo and group exhibitions in Australia, the U.K., Europe, Thailand and China. Her work is held in private and public collections including the National Gallery of Australia, the Art Gallery of New South Wales and regional gallery and university collectons. 

In 1993, with the assistance of a NSDF Research Grant from The University of Sydney, she visited China to research contemporary printmaking. This visit led to an ongoing engagement with Chinese art and culture, which has impacted on her creative work and encompassed multi-faceted research projects in China. 

Mirabel is the second daughter of Charles Patrick FitzGerald, sinologist and cultural historian. Since 2001 she has been cataloguing and scanning an archive of CP FitzGerald’s photographs of China, taken in the early 20th century.

She initiated the publication of three new editions of his books in Chinese and English, and a comprehensive book of FitzGerald’s photographs taken in Yunnan in 1936-38, published by the Bai Nationality Cultural Institute of Yunnan. Collections of CP FitzGerald’s Yunnan photographs have recently been acquired by The Linden Centre, Yunnan, China www.linden-centre.com and The Dali Museum, Yunnan, China.