By Leo Fitzmaurice.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Leo Fitzmaurice is a British artist. He 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. In 2004 Fitzmaurice was invited by the British Council to take part in the Artist Links residency at Vitamin Creative Space, Guangzhou, China where his practice moved away from painting and towards the use of found objects. Currently he has the sign-works Arcadia featured as part of Sculpture in the city, cited around the City of London and is working on a permanent commissions; for Chambers Wharf, on the banks for the Thames near Tower bridge, and a text sculpture LIFT for the new Clatterbridge Cancer Centre in Liverpool. In 2012 Fitzmaurice was the recipient of the 5th Northern Art Prize and he is represented by The Sunday Painter, London
Large scale sculptural versions of these Totems will be exhibited in Fitzmaurice’s upcoming solo exhibition, Enjoy Civic Life, at The Humber Street Gallery in Hull, Uk, 2021.
