Laura Fitzgerald was born in 1983 and received a first class honours degree in Fine Art Painting from the National College of Art & Design in 2007. She also studied in the Academy of Fine Art Leipzig  and in Parsons School of Design in New York.

During 2007 Laura was chosen for the Elia Bloom art graduate program in Brussels and was chosen to exhibit in various venues and galleries such as Artisit Galway, Art trail Cork, Joan Clancy Gallery Co. Waterford, the Talbot Gallery and Stone Gallery Dublin. She has been in group shows in Film Base, BT2 Art Ireland Dublin, Artstate Incontri Europei Bologna and the RDS travelling exhibition.

She was nominated for student of the year 2006 in NCAD and had work selected for exhibitions such as the Royal Society of Graphic Fine Art London, the National Rose Project, The Lab, Dublin and Portrait Ireland 2005. In 2005 Laura was awarded the Freyer Award by the RDS student art awards and was short listed for the Markievicz Medal in painting in 2005 and 2004 successively.

She continues to work on various projects and shows, with an upcoming September solo show in the Talbot Gallery Dublin and also due to show work in "Sculpture in Context" in the National Botanical Gardens Dublin in August.

Laura’s work is well received by critics such as Aidan Dunne of the Irish Times (2007, 15th Oct and 2007, 16th June) and Lucy White The Metro (2007 Nov 1st) and is included in the publication: "The 5th edition of A Buyers Guide to Irish Art"

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