Tom Fitzgerald is an Irish Artist living in County Limerick, Ireland.
He retired from his position as Head of Sculpture in Limerick School of Art and Design in 2000, to pursue his own work.
His practice includes sculpture, drawing, painting, installation and temporary environmental interventions.
In 1977 he was a founder member of EVA.
He was elected to Aosdana in 2001.
A book of his satirical drawings, The Celtic Zoo, was published by Occasional Press in Oct 2014.
CURRICULUM VITAE
email : tomfitzgeral@gmail.com
Website: www.tomfitzgerald.ie
1939: Born in Limerick, Ireland.
1965-69: Limerick School of Art & Design
1976 – 2000: Head of Sculpture, Limerick School of Art & Design
1977: Founder member of Exhibition of Visual Art (EV+a) 2001: Elected to membership of Aosdana
Lives and works in County Limerick
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2022: Spirit Music, Limerick City Gallery of Art
2020: The Best Laid Plans, VISUAL, Carlow
2014: The Celtic Zoo, Luan Gallery, Athlone, Co. Westmeath
2013: Selected Works, Iniscealtra Arts Festival, Mountshannon, Co Clare
The Celtic Zoo, Custom House Studios, Westport, County Mayo
2011/12: The Celtic Zoo, Bourn Vincent Gallery, University of Limerick
2009: The Ministry of Dust & Other Works, Doswell Gallery, Roscarbery, Co. Cork
GAZAPARADISO, Drawing/text installation, The Black Mariah Gallery, Cork
2006: A History of Silence, Ashford Gallery, RHA Gallagher Gallery, Dublin
2004: The Ministry of Dust, Limerick City Gallery of Art & Niland Gallery, Sligo
1999: Work from the Nineties, Monaghan Museum.
1998 : Other Litanies, Butler Gallery, Kilkenny; Rubicon Gallery, Dublin.
1996: Object Histories, Bunratty Folk Park, County Clare.
1995: Ephemeral Lexicon , Project Arts Centre, Dublin; Limerick City Gallery of Art,
Alternative Geographies, Rubicon Gallery, Dublin.
1991: New Works, Riverrun Gallery, Dublin.
1989: Work from the Eighties – Butler Gallery, Kilkenny.
1988: Acquisitions in Context, Limerick City Gallery of Art
1985: Hendriks Gallery, Dublin.
COLLABORATIONS
2014 – For the Birds with Sean Lynch, VISUAL, Carlow
The Celtic Zoo book publication, with Theo Dorgan, Occasional Press
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2022: Artists from Ireland, Sasse Art Museum, LA, online show
2021: Couples, Sasse Art Museum, LA, online show
2019: RHA Annual Exhibition, Gallagher Gallery, Dublin
2018: RHA Annual Exhibition, Gallagher Gallery, Dublin
2017: Artworks, VISUAL, Carlow
Art in a Box, Hamilton Gallery, Sligo
2016: Artworks, VISUAL, Carlow 2015: RHA Annual Exhibition, Gallagher Gallery, Dublin
Art in Killanure Castle
2014: The Celtic Zoo, Luan Gallery, Athlone
Synergy, Bourn Vincent Gallery, UL
Personal Choice, Church Gallery, LSAD, Limerick
RHA Annual Exhibition, Gallagher Gallery, Dublin
Garden Sculpture Exhibition, Russborough House, Blessington, Co Dublin
2013: RHA Annual Exhibition, Gallagher Gallery, Dublin
The Year of the Flood, Flood Gallery, Dublin
Selected Group Show, Custom House Studios, Westport
2012: A Vivid Imagination: Selected works from the Collection, LCGA, Limerick
The Hellfire Club Project – Askeaton Contemporary Arts, Askeaton, Co. Limerick
RHA Annual Exhibition, Gallagher Gallery, Dublin
Elements – OPW exhibition of Public Sector Artworks – Belfast Central Library.
2011: RHA Annual Exhibition, Gallagher Gallery, Dublin
Fine Lines, Selection from the National Collection of Contemporary Drawing, Istabraq Hall, Limerick
Collecting for Ireland, Works from the Arts Council Collection, Hunt Museum
2010: Ev+a Annual Exhibition, Limerick
Bittersweet, Doswell Gallery, Roscarbery
Mirror, mirror, RHA Gallagher Gallery
RHA Annual Exhibition, Gallagher Gallery, Dublin
Boyle Arts Show (Invited Artist)
Michael Quane Selects, Lavit Gallery, Cork
Table of Contents, LSAD research Project
2009: RHA Annual Exhibition, Gallagher Gallery, Dublin (Invited artist)
2008: Charles Harper Selects, McBride Art Gallery, Killarney
Sculpture in the Garden, Dublin
Abhar agus Meon, International Archaeology Congress, UCD, Dublin
RHA Annual Exhibition, Gallagher Gallery, Dublin
2007: RHA Annual Exhibition, Gallagher Gallery, Dublin
Maverick, Ruby Lane Gallery, Limerick
2006: RHA Annual Exhibition, Gallagher Gallery, Dublin (Invited Artist)
Sculpture in Kells – Kilkenny & Wales
Failure: Grennan Mill, Kilkenny Arts Week
2005: After the thaw-recent art from the AIB Art Collection-Crawford Art Gallery, Cork
From Landscape, Mermaid Arts Centre, Bray, LCGA, Limerick
An Leabhar Mor, Glucksman Gallery, UCC.
RHA Annual Exhibition, Gallagher Gallery, Dublin (Invited Artist)
Contemporary Art from Ireland, European Central Bank, Frankfurt
The happiest country in the world, OPW, Dublin; Lorient, France
2004: RHA Annual Exhibition (Invited Artist)
Boyle Arts Festival (Invited Artist)
2003: 14 Artists One Place, Holter Museum, Helena, Montana, USA
RHA Annual Exhibition, Gallagher Gallery, Dublin
2002: An Leabhar Mor Exhibition, The Gallery of Modern Art, Glasgow
EV+a, Limerick
RHA, Gallagher Gallery, Dublin (Invited Artist)
Line/Exploration, Lavit Gallery Cork
2001: As I See Myself, Hunt Museum, Limerick
2001: Focus on Drawing, Limerick, Cork, Dublin
Fitzgerald, Harper, Shinnors, Slade, Vanguard Gallery, Cork
2000: Kingdom of Heaven, R.H.A. Gallery, Dublin
An Artists’ Century, R.H.A. Gallery, Dublin
Stitches and Ditches, IMMA Travelling Show
1999: Remembering Jim Kemmy, Limerick City Gallery of Art
Inscriptions in Stone, Fenderesky Gallery, Belfast
1998: Europa 24, Linz, Austria.
1998: EV+A 98, Limerick.
1997: Lingua Oculorum, Beltable, Limerick
1997: Director’s Cut , Rubicon Gallery, Dublin.
1996: Arts Fest, RTC, Cork. (Curator : Matthew Flowers)
1996: Pro-em, Sculptors’ Drawings, Rubicon Gallery, Dublin.
1996: Royal Hibernian Academy, Gallagher Gallery, Dublin
1995: EV+A 95 (Curator : Maria de Corral)
1994: EUROPA 24, Erfurt, Germany.
1993: Bourne Vincent Inaugural show, University of Limerick.
1992: EV+A 92 . Limerick. (Curator : Lars Nittve)
EUROPA 24, Hungary.
1991: L’avventura dell’ oggetto, Padua, Italy.
1988: Irish Artists, Art Advice Gallery, New York.
Olympiade des Arts, Seoul, South Korea.
Sculpture Open, Gallagher Gallery, Dublin.
1987: International Small Sculpture Exhibition, Budapest.
EV+A ‘87, Limerick (Curator : Ida Panicelli)
1986 111éme Biennale Européenne de Sculpture, France.
1985: Nine Irish Artists, Armstrong Gallery, New York.
EV+A ‘85, Limerick Curator: Rudi Fuchs)
1984: ROSC ‘84, Dublin.
11éme Biennale Européenne de Sculpture, France.
1983: EV+A ‘83 – Limerick, Belfast, Dublin.
1982: GPA Awards Show, Douglas Hyde Gallery, Dublin.
AWARDS
2004: Arts Council Bursary
1994: Sculpture Award, IONTAS Exhibition, Sligo.
1992: Department of Foreign Affairs Travel Award.
1988: Patron’s Award, EV+A ‘88 (curator: Alexander Rozhin).
1987: Department of Foreign Affairs Travel Award.
Open Award, EV+A ‘87 (curator: Ida Panicelli).
1986: Arts Council Bursary.
1984: Department of Foreign Affairs Bursary.
1982: Scott Tallon Walker Award
1981: Oireachtas Gold Medal.
Calor Kosangas Award.
Open Award, EV+A ‘81 (curator: Pierre Restany).
Arts Council Bursary.
1980: Patron’s Award, EV+A ‘80 (curator:Brian O Doherty).
PUBLICATIONS
THE CELTIC ZOO ( With Theo Dorgan) – Occasional Press, 2014
PUBLIC COLLECTIONS
An Chomhairle Ealaoin (The Arts Council).
Office of Public Works
Hugh Lane Municipal Gallery, Dublin.
Marley Park Sculpture Garden, Dublin.
Gordon Lambert Collection, IMMA, Dublin.
Loans and Donations from Maire and Maurice Foley, IMMA, Dublin
Allied Irish Investment Bank, Dublin.
AIB Financial Services Division, Cork
Olympic Park, Seoul, South Korea.
Limerick City Gallery of Art
City Hall, Limerick
County Hall, Limerick
Limerick Contemporary Art Society.
University of Limerick.
Mary Immaculate College of Education, Limerick.
Butler Gallery, Kilkenny.
Colonia Insurance Co. Irish Financial Services Centre, Dublin 1.
Public Library, Roscrea, Co Tipperary
Public Library, Newcastlewest, Co Limerick
St Patrick’s Secondary School, Tulla, Co, Clare
PUBLIC COMMISSIONS
2013: JFK Commemorative coin commissioned by The Central Bank of Ireland
2006: “Voyage of the alchemist” – Dundalk, Co. Louth
2003: “The Numbers game” Limerick County Council Headquarters
2001: “Bending the Wind” – Ringabella, Co. Cork
2001: “Ark” – Kenmare, Co. Kerry
2001: “The Sounding Tree” – Bru Boru, Cashel, Co. Tipperary
2000: “Millennium Stone” – Pallaskenry, County Limerick
2000: “Land Litany” – Irish Pavilion, EXPO 2000, Hannover, Germany.
2000: “The Singing Cosmos”– Sculpture for St. Luke’s Hospital, Dublin.
1998 : “ Leaf Litany” – Sculpture for University of Limerick.
1988: “Temple for Molly Bloom” Olympic Park, Seoul, South Korea.
1987: “Sweeney’s Throne”, Custom House, Limerick.
1986: “Falla” IDA sponsored sculpture for Annacotty Enterprise Centre, Limerick
1984: Irish National Insurance Awards
SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY AND REVIEWS
THE POETRY OF VISION – Peter Shortt – Irish Academic Press, 2016
ART AND ARCHITECTURE OF IRELAND, VOLUME 111, SCULPTURE – Yale University Press 2014
BETWEEN FORM AND SPACE – Judith Hill, Irish Arts Review, 2014
THE CELTIC ZOO – GERRY DUKES, Irish Arts Review, 2014
ELEMENTS – OPW and Dept of Finance and Personnel, Northern Ireland – 2012
THE HELLFIRE CLUB – ASKEATON CONTEMPORARY ARTS – 2012
21 PROPOSALS FOR THE TURBINE HALL – Produced and edited by Peter Morgan and Judy Kravis – Road Books – 2011
COLLECTING FOR IRELAND- WORKS FROM THE ARTS COUNCIL COLLECTION – Curated by Ruairi O Cuiv – The Hunt Museum – 2011
BY THE WAY – A selection of public art in Ireland – Ann Lane – Wordwell – 2010
DICTIONARY OF LIVING IRISH ARTISTS – Robert O Byrne – Plurabelle Publishing – 2010
THE AVANT – David Brancaleone – CIRCA 130 – Winter 2009
GAZAPARADISO – The Black Mariah, Cork – Foreword by Sean Lynch – 2009
AFTER THE THAW – Crawford Municipal Art Gallery, Cork – 2005
TOM FITZGERALD – The Ministry of Dust Drawings – Gandon Editions – 2004
TOM FITZGERALD – The Ministry of Dust – Published by Limerick City Gallery of Art – 2004
TOM FITZGERALD – Profile 20 – Editors – John O Regan & Nicola Dearey, Gandon Editions – 2004
AN LEABHAR MÒR – CANONGATE BOOKS -Editors – Malcolm Maclean & Theo Dorgan – 2002
DRAWING TEXTS – OCCASIONAL PRESS – Edited by Jim Savage – 2001
ARCHITEKTUR ARCHITECTURE – EXPO 2000 Hannover – 2000
AN ARTISTS’ CENTURY – R H A GALLERY, DUBLIN – 2000
KINGDOM OF HEAVEN – LIMERICK CITY GALLERY OF ART – 1999
THE BUTLER GALLERY COLLECTION – THE BUTLER GALLERY, 1999
CATALOGUE OF THE COLLECTION-IMMA, May 1991-May 1998
APPRECIATION & HISTORY OF ART – Aidan O Sullivan, Gill & McMillan, 1998
LE REPERTOIRE ILLUSTRE DE L’ART ENVIRONNEMENTAL – ISELP – 1996
NATIONAL COLLECTION OF CONTEMPORARY DRAWING – Volume 1- 1996
4D – Sculptors’ Society of Ireland Magazine, July 1995.
L’ART URBAIN DANS L’EUROPE DES DOUZE- Dossier de Recherche, Institut Superieur pour l’Etude du Langage Plastique, 1993.
TOM FITZGERALD- Peter Jordan, CIRCA magazine, Number 51, 1990.
NATIONAL SELF-PORTRAIT COLLECTION OF IRELAND- Sarah Finlay, University of Limerick Press.
MEITHEAL – SCULPTURE SYMPOSIA IN IRELAND, Sculptors’ Society of Ireland, 1988.
SIGHT, INSIGHT, EXCITE – Lourda Sheppard, Folens, 1987.
IRISH ARTISTS- Portraits by Muiris Moynihan – Irish Visual Arts Foundation, 1987.
GODS AND GALLANTS – RTE interview, Jan. 11th. 1987.
TOM FITZGERALD- Dorothy Walker, Hendriks Gallery Publication, 1986.
OPENING DOORS -THE PORTALS OF DISCOVERY – Gerry Dukes, Catalogue article,1985
ARTIST CHASING THE VERY SPIRIT OF THE LAND-Aidan Dunne, Sunday Press, Dec 1st. 1985.
THE MEETING OF THE WATERS- Dorothy Walker, Art and Artists, September 1984.
IRISH SCULPTURE FROM 1600- Anne Crookshank, Department of Foreign Affairs, 1984.
CONTEMPORARY IRISH ART- Editor, Roderic Knowles, Wolfhound Press, 1982.