(1963 - )
Born in Newport, Leo Fitzmaurice lives and works in Merseyside. After studying painting at Leicester Polytechnic, Liverpool Polytechnic and Manchester Metropolitan University, he emerged in the mid-1990s as the prize winner of the Northern Young Contemporaries (1993) and with the inclusion of his work in the Arts Council England touring show of new purchases (1995). In 2004, Fitzmaurice was invited by the British Council to take part in the Artist Links residency at Vitamin Creative Space, Guangzhou, China. He was the recipient of the fifth Northern Art Prize in 2012. He has exhibited extensively in the UK and internationally, with selected solo exhibitions at Yorkshire Sculpture Park (2007); Frieze London Sculpture Park (2015);The Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool (2018); and Humber Street Gallery, Hull (2020).
