In the 1980s, Petzal worked as a journalist and arts critic for
Time Out and
Art Monthly. In 1994, she and Belinda Harding developed a plan to establish a Museum of Women's Art (MWA) in London. The plan was not implemented, though an inaugural exhibition,
Reclaiming the Madonna, was held at the Economist Building that year. From 2000 to 2007, she was an interviewer for the
British Library and
Tate Gallery Archive's Artists' Lives
oral history project and was considered a catalyst for the 'Art Professionals' portion, recording life story interviews with curators, critics, dealers and gallery owners. == Selected solo exhibitions ==