Born in December 1983, "Laura Fitzgerald's work explores the break up of a relationship and goes on to elucidate on the way people share the same space, but occupy parallel worlds" writes Aidan Dunne in The Irish Times of Laura's work in the NCAD Degree Show in June 2007. Her work was short listed for the Markievicz Medal in 2004 and 2005. Accepted into the Parson's School of Design in NYC in summer 2004 she received an A, Parson's highest awarding grade, and was chosen for the RDS Travelling Student Art Exhibition in 2003, and awarded the RDS Freyer Award in 2005.