1948 Born Melbourne, Australia

Education

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

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

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

Bibliography

Cartooning 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

Collections

Australian 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

   The figure in the carpet 6 (2006)
   Oil on canvas, 97 x 122 cm