Leo Fitzmaurice

Leo Fitzmaurice was born in Shropshire, England, in 1963 and now lives and works in Merseyside. He studied painting at Leicester Polytechnic, Liverpool Polytechnic and Manchester Metropolitan University. He has shown work at numerous galleries including: Seventeen, London; Tanya Leighton, Berlin; Dodgy, New York. He has solo presentations at Rogoland Kunstsenter, Norway; Grundy Gallery, Blackpool; New Art Centre, Walsall; and Firstsite, Colchester. He is currently working on a permanent commission at Chambers Wharf, London, for Thames Tideway.

His work is held in several public collections including The Arts Council Collection, and Government Art Collection in London, Yorkshire Sculpture Park and Manchester Art Gallery. He was a recipient of the 5th Northern Art Prize in 2012. Leo Fitzmaurice is represented by The Sunday Painter in London.

@leo.fitzmaurice

Website: www.leofitzmaurice.com

object | multiple editions:

Stacks (Cooper Black), 2024

Automotive Paint on Jesmonite

Dimensions Variable

Unique works in a

£25 per letter (five letter word £125, six letter word £150, seven £175).

This artwork continues the artist's interest in the physical manifestation of information, in particular various strategies of blocking the message of textual information to consider its physical presence in new ways. This particular work suggests a way of thinking through text as a tactile experience.

Fitzmaurice's regular use of language as a material in its own right, in found, recycled signage, moveable type and other letterforms, here features sculptural letterforms physically compressed in a manner that resembles the squeezing of data, whilst also coming to resemble totemic vertical constructs, each of which slows the viewer's reading.

For more information and to buy this work, go to the artworks page on the store here

For more information on the artist, scroll up to the top of this page.