Leo Fitzmaurice:

May 11th - June 8th

Convenience Gallery Pop Up, 

FIT IT

By Leo Fitzmaurice

FIT IT is a new site-specific work by artist Leo Fitzmaurice at the Convenience Pop Up in the Old M&S on Birkenhead High Street, as part of The Town is the Gallery programme. 

Leo has said: "As with much of my work it is really a response to existing material - in this case the physical fabric of the store itself. In particular the wall paneling, which struck me as having a satisfying logic to it - as many functional things do. Taking these simple linear panels to form a housing for a paired down alphabet - I then lined the walls with words associated with the original function of the space."

The result of this process and practice is a large-scale installation of text work that can be read simultaneously as text or viewed as a graphic pattern. 

Launch Event tickets: https://skiddle.com/e/38269373

About Leo Fitzmaurice: 

I try to come to projects without any preconceptions and ideas, usually starting with some sort of observation. Having said that, I do have particular themes that I return to, particularly the push/pull of language within our environment: things such as signage, packaging, flyers and posters. I rework this sort of material keeping its energy but changing its original intention. 

Images:

1. FIT IT graphic

2. LIFT

Commission for Clatterbridge Cancer Centre 2020

steel and aluminium, 9m x 1.5 m x 0.5m

3. ARCADIA

Multipart sign-work sited at Yorkshire Sculpture Park, Wakefield 2016 on.

Steel, aluminium, vinyl, 1.6m x 1.8m x 0.1m