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Leo Fitzmaurice

Leo Fitzmaurice (b. 1963) studied at Leicester Polytechnic 1988-89, Liverpool Polytechnic 1989-92 and Manchester Metropolitan University 1992-94, and currently lives and works in Heswall and Liverpool. His work is currently focused on the physical manifestations of information within our everyday environment. He reworks advertising, signage, packaging and print to reveal other, often surprising, aspects of the materials used within these various media which is so ubiquitous it is so often taken for granted. Most recently he has undertaken a series of interventions in public spaces in London, Liverpool, Norway, #Berlin and Zurich for a commission called ‘Detourist’. Applying techniques of appropriation and reduction, Fitzmaurice has subtly altered urban environments, adapting found materials and waste already at the sites in question, or heightening existing forms by inserting handcrafted structures that started life as commercial packaging. Other recent work includes: ‘Sometimes The Things You Touch Come True’, Yorkshire Sculpture Park (2007); ‘You’ve Grown And Changed In So Many Ways’ (2006); ‘What Use Is A Sign If You Know The Way’, Harewood House in Leeds (2005); and ‘Neat Stuff’, Firstsite Colchester (2005). With Neville Gabie, he was co-curater of ‘ Further Up In The Air’ (2001-4) and has recently curated ‘Stuff Happens’ for the Angel Row Gallery in Nottingham (2007).

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