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1.5 Degrees - 2020

October 31, 2022

Thirty years ago, while living in Canada, I hiked and sketched some of the spectacular glaciers there, humbled by a landscape that seemingly payed no heed to human presence. Recently, I researched how those glaciers were being affected by a warming world. I sought out photographers and scientists whose recent images were taken from the same viewpoint as my early sketches.

These works continue my response to visits to glaciers on four continents, and contrasts new works based on my 1980s originals, with compelling photographs of the glaciers’ decline viewed via the use of a QR code exhibited with each work.

In parallel, the clear and present danger of accompanying sea-level rise has lent impetus to my studies of rock-pools and fragile coastal ecosystems from Perth to Sydney. I have been struck by a sense of the retreating continental edge we cling to, while half a world away, the glaciers withdraw in lockstep.

As water exists in three different states, so too does this work. Acrylic abstractions are paired with digital images and contrasted with oil paintings of intimate coastal details, creating a triplet of visual elements, seen and unseen. In the liminal spaces between solid and liquid, memory and present, between action and inaction, I hope to encourage contemplation on water; the impact a 1.5° rise will have on its global, increasingly fragile, interconnected cycle, our total dependence upon it, and of the future borne by it, carried on a rising tide.

2019 WATER WAYS

June 8, 2019

Water’s impact and absence explored by SA artists

 

Six South Australian artists are exploring water’s global and intimate impact on us, and ours on it, as part of a free exhibition being held during the 2019 Adelaide Fringe.

2019 Water Ways will highlight water’s physical forms and many moods as well as the effects of its absence, through each artist’s unique voice and personal experiences.

“Water has long been used as a metaphor for the inner journey, the passage between one state of consciousness and the next and now science is revealing its deep impact on our psyche and mental health,” said curator Catherine Fitz-Gerald, who is also one of the artists presenting works.

“Humanity’s industrialized ability to contain, constrain and change water’s state has enabled us to terraform our planet to an unprecedented degree.”

Earth’s water are connected in a vast cycle, recording and reminding us of eons of change, and each artist explores these concepts and more through very different mediums and techniques.

The exhibition at Fisher Jeffries Exhibition Space will feature Keren Seelander’s expressive, metaphorical mixed media paintings, Ursula Kiessling’s complex, naive deserts, Catherine Fitz-Gerald’s transformative abstractions, Rod Bax’s luminous wetland oils, Margaret Ambridge’s tender charcoal works on paper and Mark Fitz-Gerald’s photographic portraits of water interpreting water’s qualities and states in a world on the cusp of irremediable climate change.

Adelaide Fringe Event                   2019 WATER WAYS

Genre                                                 Visual Arts Group Exhibition

Dates                                                 1st - 22nd February 2019

Times                                                 9.00 – 5.00pm Monday – Friday

Launch                                               5.30 – 7.30pm Friday 1st Feb

Meet the artists                              12.00-2.00pm & 5.00pm-6.00pm Tuesday 5th February

Venue                                                Fisher Jeffries Exhibition Space

                                                            Level 1, 19 Gouger Street Adelaide SA 5065

Participating Artists                       Keren Seelander                          www.seelander.com.au

                                                            Ursula Kiessling                            

                                                            Catherine Fitz-Gerald                    www.catherinefitz-gerald.com

                                                            Rod Bax                                             www.rodbax.com

                                                            Margaret Ambridge                       www.margaretambridge.com.au

                                                            Mark Fitz-Gerald

Curator & Media Contact               Catherine Fitz-Gerald    

                                                            Mbl 0481215753                     EMAIL cfgart@gmail.com

                                                            www.catherinefitz-gerald.com

New Exhibition - RAH 2018

June 18, 2018

I’m trilled to be invited to exhibit in The Centre for Creative Health first Adelaide Fringe Exhibition. My art practise has formed an integral part of my journey to health and well-being and I have enjoyed exploring this even further. My most recent work explores emerging areas of science investigating how light and colour can affect our brain through non-image forming pathways. The effect of ‘blue space’ and ‘forest bathing’ is now being researched with very interesting results, including improved creative solution finding after time spent immersed in the blues of ocean and sky. Our instinct to let the salt breeze ‘blow the cobwebs away’ is now being proved a good one!

The exhibition, which also includes works by Jane Skeer and Sue Michael, runs from February 23rd to the end of May and is open to the public at anytime.

The new exhibition spaces are located on the third floor and accessed by the B or C lifts.

SALA Open Studio 2017

June 18, 2018

We feel blue, sing the blues, seek the blue bird of happiness and celebrate blue skies ahead. So what is Beyond Blue? Come and see a very personal exploration at my Open Studio.

Artist in residence, Adelaide Central Market 2017

June 18, 2018

I’m very excited to be the artist in residence at the Adelaide Central Market during SALA this year. This is not really an exhibition, it’s more like a sharing of an artist’s studio space within the Adelaide Central Market. I will be painting the ‘Alphabet of Fruit’ there three days a week for a month. For many years I have been slowly painting my way through the alphabet and I have just a few letters to go. My aim is to create a community cookbook illustrated by my paintings. But should A be for apples, apricots or avocados? A lot will depend on the recipes people share with me.

You will find me painting August 3rd to 26th Thursdays 11-5pm, Fridays 11-7pm and Saturdays 10-3pm in the south west corner of the market. Children are welcome to try sketching fruit with me but must be supervised at all times.

Please note that the link to submit a recipe has now closed. If you would still like to share a recipe with me, please email me via CONTACT top right of the page.

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The Advertiser Contemporary Art Award Exhibition 2016

June 18, 2018

I am thrilled to be a finalist in The Advertiser Contemporary Art Award this year.  The exhibition is showing throughout the month of August in the Keith Murdoch Building.

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Meet our new ‘A Bus Full Of Art’ artists for SALA 2016

June 18, 2018

A new event for SALA this year is an artist hub at Victoria Square with containers acting as pop up studios. A Bus Full of Art will be participating during the first week of SALA. For details on which artist will be painting when please go to our facebook page.

Fleurieu Food and Wine Art Prize 2016

June 18, 2018

So excited!  I’m a finalist in the Fleurieu Food and Wine Art Prize and will be showing at Chapel Hill Winery.  Come and see this fabulous exhibition spread across nine wineries in McLaren Vale.

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A Bus Full of Art – Adelaide Fringe 2016

June 18, 2018

I’m so excited about this unique concept…whoever thought I would be in a Fringe event with five other artist.  Look out for our bus full of art.  We will be in many locations, from Goolwa to Port Augusta, throughout Adelaide Fringe 2016.

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Scope – a solo exhibition

June 18, 2018

Lights, camera, action … yes it’s time for another show.

I know it’s close to Christmas, but I hope you can make it to the December 12th opening of my new solo exhibition ‘Scope’ at Gallery at Pikes near Clare. If you can’t make it and you fancy a glass of Pike Winery’s excellent wines pop up anytime over the summer and have a look anytime before February 24th. Gallery on Pikes is open 10am-4pm seven days a week.

Glenside Lions Club Art Show 2015

June 18, 2018

What a surprise! This year’s City of Burnside Acquisitive Prize of $3000 was awarded to Catherine Fitz-Gerald for her painting titled ‘Cosmos, after Pollock’.

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Who needs a theme? Friends & their art

June 18, 2018

People often call a collection of artists a group or a collaboration, but that’s not us. We are a friendship of artists, loosely bound by occasional lunches, coffee and when the work goes well, by champagne. Some of us have known each other for 30 years and some for 30 days – kindred spirits connected by our creativity.

Each of us has our own distinct artistic language and we have very diverse approaches to our work. Nevertheless, we are able to critique and appreciate one another’s art in very constructive ways.

Art is often a solitary pursuit and the encouragement and friendship of fellow artists is always delightful.

‘Who needs a theme’ is a diverse exhibition in glass, silk, oils, charcoal, acrylics, home wares, re-imagined materials and chocolate.

Seasons

June 18, 2018

‘Seasons’ was opened in 2008 by Anna Flanders, Managing Editor of Adelaide Matters. The changing faces of nature have inspired musicians, poets and artists for as long as seasons have turned. These are subjects I love exploring and I was lucky to be joined by seven wonderful children, (between the ages of two and fifteen), who also painted a piece each for the show. Go to the children’s gallery to see more of their beautiful work.

Inspiration and memory, artist’s talk

June 18, 2018

‘Inspiration and memory’ is a series inspired by my mother’s 80th birthday. Click here to listen to some of the thoughts behind these works as we pan through the gallery a few weeks after opening.

Before the Wine – a solo exhibition

June 18, 2018

‘Before the wine’ – a solo exhibition coinciding with the Barossa Vintage Festival

Venue
Artisans of Barossa
284 Magnolia Road Tanunda

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