BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//wp-events-plugin.com//7.4.5//EN TZID:Europe/London X-WR-TIMEZONE:Europe/London BEGIN:VEVENT UID:4086@artinliverpool.com DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London;VALUE=DATE:20180929 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London;VALUE=DATE:20190318 DTSTAMP:20181217T152140Z URL:https://www.artinliverpool.com/events/walker-art-gallery-leo-fitzmauri ce-between-you-and-me-and-everything-else/ SUMMARY:Walker Art Gallery: Walker Art Gallery: Leo Fitzmaurice: Between Yo u and Me and Everything Else DESCRIPTION:LEO FITZMAURICE: BETWEEN YOU AND ME AND EVERYTHING ELSE\n\n\nAn Arts Council Collection National Partners exhibition at Walker Art Galler y\n\nArtist Leo Fitzmaurice will create an assembly of portraits at Liverp ool’s Walker Art Gallery as part of a new exhibition\, which asks visito rs to look twice at what might\, at first\, seem familiar. Leo Fitzmauric e: Between You and Me and Everything Else (29 September 2018 to 17 March 2019) will include artworks from the Arts Council Collection and National Museums Liverpool’s own collection.\n\nMore than 30 portraits by artists including Frank Auerbach\, David Bomberg\, Milena Dragicevic\, Ken Kiff \, Marie-Louise von Motesiczky and Philip Sutton will feature in the exhib ition\, which takes place in Room 9 at the Gallery.\n\nA painting from the Lady Lever Art Gallery features as an important work in the display\; Ps amathe (1879-80) by Frederic\, Lord Leighton\, depicts a female nude from behind. The subject appears to be looking out to the sea in front of her. It is this “tone of inquisitiveness in the world beyond” that Wirra l-based Fitzmaurice hopes to expand upon in the exhibition.\n\nLeo Fitzmau rice said: “Almost always\, in my work\, I try to frame the everyday and the overlooked in a new light. So\, rather than seeing myself as a maker\ , I consider myself a maker of things apparent - I would think an artwor k successful if the work could give the feeling of encountering something familiar for the first time.\n\n“With this piece I have thought about po rtraiture\, and the portrayed\, from first principles\; for me\, portraitu re is the depiction of a face on a two-dimensional plane. This grouping of portraits is my way of saying something new about this age-old problem. ”\n\nThe artist presents familiar things in ways that make the viewer qu estion what they see and what they know about them. At first glance\, Room  9 may look like many other rooms in the Gallery. However\, on closer in spection visitors will notice something unusual about the placement of the portraits and the direction in which the sitters appear to be looking.\n\ nFor the artist\, the process of selecting the portraits is a way of ‘sl icing through’ the collections of National Museums Liverpool and the Art s Council Collection. This simple process has revealed interesting things about portraiture and the collections.\n\nBeth Lewis\, Arts Council Collec tion Project Curator at the Walker Art Gallery\, said: “Leo has a wonder ful ability to see the potential in the so-called ‘everyday’. His prac tice encourages us to look twice and see things differently\, often changi ng our perceptions through his very subtle interventions.”\n\nThe varied selection of portraits ranges from Portrait of a Young Man\, perhaps Geo rge Stubbs (1744-8) – a painting considered to be an early portrait of the famous Liverpool-born artist George Stubbs\, attributed to William Cad dick – to Milena Dragicevic’s Supplicant 101 (2008)\, a colourful po rtrait of one of the artist’s friends\, in which the sitter’s face is partially distorted by a beak.\n\nRichard Hamilton’s pop art collage\,  Portrait of Hugh Gaitskell as a Famous Monster of Filmland (1964)\, depic ts a Labour politician who refused to endorse a non-nuclear policy\, while one of two paintings by Edward Le Bas portrays artist and writer Angelica Garnett\, the daughter of his close friend\, Bloomsbury Group artist Vane ssa Bell. The portraits often provide an insight into the sitters’ stat us\, power and personalities.\n\nBeth Hughes\, Curator at the Arts Council Collection\, said: “It is always an exciting experience when an artist approaches the Collection with their unique\, artistic eye and creates a f resh and dynamic presentation.\n\n“We are thrilled that the Walker Art G allery chose Leo Fitzmaurice to create this immersive exhibition and that our works have been brought into the artistic approach Leo has been workin g on for a number of years. Arts Council Collection holds so many bold por traits\; Leo has expertly handpicked a diverse range and unified them in h is intriguing concept.”\n\nShropshire-born Fitzmaurice studied painting at Leicester Polytechnic\, Liverpool Polytechnic and Manchester Metropolit an University. His work features in many collections\, including the Arts Council Collection\, Yorkshire Sculpture Park\, Manchester Art Gallery\, The Royal London Hospital\, Locus+ Archive\, and numerous private collecti ons.\n\nIn 2012\, Fitzmaurice was the recipient of the fifth Northern Art Prize. He exhibited in the John Moores Painting Prize in 2004. Most rece ntly he has been involved in the international galleries initiative Condo\ , and he is currently working on a permanent commission at Chambers Wharf\ , London for Thames Tideway. Fitzmaurice will be represented by The Sunda y Painter at Frieze London 2018.\n\nwww.liverpoolmuseums.org.uk/leofitzma urice\n\n ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://www.artinliverpool.com/wp-content/upload s/2018/09/Psamathe-1879-80-Frederic-Lord-Leighton.-c.-Lady-Lever-Art-Galle ry.jpg LOCATION:Walker Art Gallery\, William Brown Street\, Liverpool\, L3 8EL\, L iverpool\, United Kingdom GEO:53.409412;-2.980352 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=William Brown Street\, Live rpool\, L3 8EL\, Liverpool\, United Kingdom;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TITLE=Wal ker Art Gallery:geo:53.409412,-2.980352 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:Europe/London X-LIC-LOCATION:Europe/London BEGIN:DAYLIGHT DTSTART:20180325T020000 TZOFFSETFROM:+0000 TZOFFSETTO:+0100 TZNAME:BST END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD DTSTART:20181028T010000 TZOFFSETFROM:+0100 TZOFFSETTO:+0000 TZNAME:GMT END:STANDARD END:VTIMEZONE END:VCALENDAR