Leo Fitzmaurice
Born 1963, Newport, Shropshire, UK
Lives and works in Liverpool, UK
Education
1989 BA, Liverpool Art School (Liverpool Polytechnic)
1992 MA Fine Art, Manchester School of Art, Manchester Metropolitan University
Selected solo exhibitions
Misconstructary, The Sunday Painter, London, UK 2024
Enjoy Civic Life, Humber Street Gallery, Hull, UK 2021
Between You and Me and Everything Else, The Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool, UK, 2018
As Yet, Caustic Coastal, Salford, UK, 2017
OH V HO, The Sunday Painter, London, UK, 2016
Frieze Sculpture, London, UK, 2015
/_\, The Sunday Painter, London, UK, 2014
Blank Stir (with Paul Rooney), Grundy Art Gallery, Blackpool, UK, 2012
You Try to Tell Me But I Never Listen, New Art Gallery Walsall, UK, 2011
Panoramia, Lowry Gallery, Salford, UK 2010
Sometimes the Things You Touch Come True, Yorkshire Sculpture Park, UK, 2007
Neat Stuff, Firstsite, Colchester, UK, 2005
Selected group exhibitions
People In Pubs, The Second Act Gallery
Upcycle: curated by Paul Carey-Kent, GPS Gallery, London, UK 2025
Tops Off: A Century of Football Shirt Art, OOF Gallery, London, UK 2024
Heavy Duty Paper, Division of Labour, Worcester, UK 2020
Contemporary Sculpture Fulmer, Brooke Benington Gallery, Fulmer, UK 2020
Drawing Biennial, Drawing Room, London, UK 2019
Condo, The Sunday Painter, London, UK 2018
Market Forces, He.ro, Amsterdam, Netherlands 2018
Mantel Copperfield Gallery, London, UK 2018
Futbolka, Ty Pawb, Wales, UK 2018
Assorted Paper, The Sunday Painter, London, UK 2017
Against Landscape, Reid Gallery, Glasgow School of Art, Glasgow, UK 2017
Reader, Gether Contemporary, Copenhagen, Denmark 2016
Good Things Come, Plymouth University Gallery, Plymouth, UK 2016
Edit/Undo, Space In Between, London, UK 2015
Futbol: The Beautiful Game, LACMA, Los Angeles, USA 2014
Balls Against the Wall, Dodge Gallery, New York, USA 2013
DATA (curated by Shiri Shalma), Contemprary Art Society, London, UK 2013
FIXFIXFIX, curated by Glenn Adamson, Gallery So, London, UK 2013
Easy Does It, curated by Kevin Hunt, David Dale Gallery, Glasgow, UK 2013
Magnum Opus, N/V_Projects, London, UK 2013
Cosmo's Levels, curated by Jamie Lobb, The Sunday Painter, London, UK 2012
Things That Have Interested Me, Waterside Contemporary, London, UK 2012
Chain Chain Chain, curated by Glenn Adamson, Bischoff Weiss, London, UK 2011
Northern Art Prize, Leeds Art Gallery, Leeds (winner), UK 2011
Comfort Tones, Project Number, curated by Vulpes Vulpes, London, UK 2011
Niet Normaal, De Beurs Van Berlag, Amsterdam, Netherlands 2010
The way we do art now, curated by Pavel Buchler, Tanya Leighton Gallery, Berlin, Gemany 2010
Undone, Henry Moore Institute, Leeds, UK 2010
AMUSE BOUCHE, The 2 Johnnies, London, UK 2009
Flyersflagsheepself, Seventeen Gallery, London, UK 2009
Concerning Material, Collyer Bristow, London, UK 2009
Blickachsen 6, Bad Homberg, Berlin, Germany 2007
Good Riddance, MOT International, London, UK 2007
Public Art Commissions and Externally Sited Works
LIFT, Clatterbridge Cancer Centre, Liverpool, UK
Folding Stuff, Great Homer Street, Liverpool, UK
Archaise, Archbishop Blanch School, Liverpool, UK
What Use is a Sign if We know the Way, Harwood House, Leeds, UK
Arcadia/Litter, Yorkshire Sculpture Park, Wakefield, UK
Public Collections
Arts Council Collection, London, UK
Government Art Collection, London, UK
Yorkshire Sculpture Park, Wakefield, UK
Modern Forms, London, UK
Manchester Art Gallery, UK
Harewood House, Leeds, UK
Locus Plus Archive, Newcastle, UK
St Bart’s Hospital, London, UK
Royal London Hospital, London, UK
Awards
2011 Winner, Northern Art Prize