STAR HILL STUDIO
  • STAR HILL STUDIO
    • BOOKS
    • About Roey
    • About Jim
    • Contact us
  • BOOKS
    • The Bicycle and the Bush
    • Wheeling Matilda
    • The Bicycle in Wartime
    • Major Taylor in Australia
    • The Australian Limerick Book
    • Jim's conference & journal publications
    • Diamonds and Rain
    • The Folly
    • Abercrule
    • The Beast of McElsinore Glen
  • ROEY ART
    • Roey's 2019 Exhibition
    • Roey's 2017 Exhibition
    • The Arizona Series
    • Photography
  • MUSIC AND FILM
    • 'Diamonds and Rain'
    • 'Time in Disguise' >
      • Gertie's Bar - The Musical
    • Herbert Hoover's Life
    • Herbert Hoover Screenplay
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roey fitzpatrick

FEEL FREE TO CONTACT ME

My brush with celebrity was being corralled by a passing newspaper photographer and ending up on the front page of the Brisbane Telegraph, at the age of seven. News was slow that day.

A founding member of the Guild of Australian Songwriters, I have written many songs over the years, 
some of which can be heard on this website, at Diamonds and Rain.

I have performed in the USA, Australia, South Africa, England, Ireland, and Canada.
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Maleny, Qld, 2013
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Brisbane folk club, '70s

My career was in book publishing as an art director, graphic designer and illustrator, with such companies as John Murray (London), Brassey's (Washington), and Director of Art and Design for Jacaranda-Wiley (Brisbane).
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I  had the good fortune to work at John Murray, in London, a company which remained in the same family from 1768 until 2002. They published Jane Austen, Arthur Conan Doyle, Lord Byron, Goethe, and Charles Darwin.

I was their first work release student, and it helped pay my way through the Brookes University publishing course at Oxford. 



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Roey and Grace, at Star Hill