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: Saturday 11th May 5:00pm-10:00pm
Exhibition opening after launch: Wednesday – Saturday 10:30am – 4:00pm