Bridie Fitzgerald is a multidisciplinary artist based in Naarm (Melbourne), working primarily with analogue, lens-based media, Fitzgerald has developed a practice that spans alternative photographic printing, large-format photography, and 16mm film. Her work explores themes of place and personhood, tracing the tension between belonging and impermanence in contemporary life.

Fitzgerald’s practice is grounded in the tactile processes of traditional photography. Drawing on her experience working in a film developing lab, she embraces manual and alternative printing techniques to create work that is both materially rich and conceptually layered.

Navigating the dualities of familiarity and disconnection, Fitzgerald seeks to make sense of an ever-shifting world through close observation of the everyday. Capturing still texture, holding the moment, looking closer, and indulging in the fervour of just being, She captures a fleeting beauty in the mundane, offering viewers a contemplative space to consider their own relationship with place.

With a deep respect for the unceded lands on which she lives and works, Fitzgerald is conscious of her position as a settler. Her practice is shaped by a commitment to tread lightly, rejecting inherited domestic norms and instead engaging with space critically.

After commencing her studies at the Victorian College of the Arts, she now works primarily in installation, gallery and commission work.

Fitzgerald has been selected as a finalist in the Canberra Contemporary Photo Prize 2025 and has exhibited nationally around Australia.

Acknowledgement of Country

I pay my respects to the Traditional Owners of the land on which I practice, The Wurundjeri Woi Wurrung people of the Kulin nation. My respects also extend to the Traditional Owners of all lands of so-called Australia and elders past, present and emerging and acknowledge their care of the waterways, soils and plantae through a millennia of Indigenous ecological practice.

Sovereignty has never been ceded.

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Always was always will be Aboriginal land.