Laura Fitzgerald

Laura Fitzgerald is an artist who creates woven narratives of personal and political reflection in video, drawing, and text, often referencing the artist’s own rural background and general anxieties of international artistic professionalism.

Laura’s work is colourful, playful, and distinctly humorous. Often handwritten comments and narratives accompany her drawings and paintings, sometimes referencing personal experiences and sometimes pointing to much darker issues. The work draws connections between climate change and agriculture while exploring the complicated relationships of land ownership and land occupation.

For Lismore, Laura is making new sculptural work alongside a body of work researching the archive of experimental filmmaker Flora Kerrigan. A screening of Flora’s work will take place on Saturday 19 July, with a live score performed by Peadar-Tom Mercier and Ultan Lavery, of Trá Pháidín.

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Image: Laura Fitzgerald, Strange Weather installation view at Ormston House, Limerick, 2024. Photo by Jed Niezgoda.