London Art Award Nomination Leo Fitzmaurice: '.. a master of re-presentation; of deconstructing context and heading off on another narrative, or other such art-related nomenclature. I’m presuming that one day, while gazing at the floor of a café in Sao Paulo, or strolling, head-down, along a street in Shanghai, the artist spotted a besmirched cigarette packet damply splayed, and thought, ‘That looks exactly like the new Tranmere away strip’. And there, or thereabouts, began a new obsession.'

Creative Times: “Post Match, Leo Fitzmaurice’s beautiful assembly of discarded fag packets... Leo Fitzmaurice is a master of re-presentation; of deconstructing context and heading off on another narrative, or other such art-related nomenclature. I’m presuming that one day, while gazing at the floor of a café in Sao Paulo, or strolling, head-down, along a street in Shanghai, the artist spotted a besmirched cigarette packet damply splayed, and thought, ‘That looks exactly like the new Tranmere away strip’. And there, or thereabouts, began a new obsession.”

The Wirral based artist Fitzmaurice has recently won the Northern Art Prize. As encountered in his summer exhibition described above, his art comprises the re-visioning and re-organisation of ordinary items to lead the viewer towards a new perspective. His recent exhibition Horizon gathers a collection of 19^th and 20^th Century landscapes together and lines them up precisely to create a graphic and continuous horizon line cutting graphically through the meandering paintings. Leo studied in Liverpool and Manchester and is now working on a commission for the new London Hospital in Whitechapel, as well as showing at Bischoff/Weiss in Mayfair. Meanwhile, the Northern Art Prize continues at Leeds City Art Gallery until February 19^t, and has already ushered in well over 50,000 visitors.