12 April 2007, 7.30pm - Leo Fitzmaurice & S Mark Gubb - podcast now available

Leo Fitzmaurice lives and works in Liverpool. Solo Projects in 2007 include Detourist at MOT international London; curating Stuff Happens as part of Parade, Angel Row, Nottingham; Sometimes The Things You Touch Comes True, Yorkshire Sculpture Park. He will feature in the following group exhibitions; Good Riddance, MOT international London; K3 Express, K3 Project Space, Zurich; Golden Fluffer, Transition, London; I’ll Be Your Mirror, Promo Alfonso, London; Drawn Apart, Contemporary Art Projects; Day and Faber, London; Play Urbis Manchester; Blickachsen 7,  Blickachsen, Germany; Drawing 200, Drawing Room, London; Shrinking Cities, Van Alen Institute and Pratt Manhattan Gallery, NY.

Fitzmaurice also has work in the following collections: Arts Council, Hiscox, Manchester Art Gallery, Harewood House and many private collections.

His guest, S Mark Gubb lives and works in Nottingham. Recent residencies include the Arts Council of England’s International Fellowship at Bunkier Sztuki, Krakow, Poland and the Wheatley Fellowship at Birmingham Institute of Art and Design. Recent exhibitions include His Life is Full of Miracles, Site Gallery, Sheffield, Sideshow in Nottingham, Come With Me, Don’t Ask Me Where ‘Cos I Don’t Know, VIVID, Birmingham and Things We Lost in the Fire, Transition Gallery, London.

Mark is currently co-ordinating a nine month series of residencies and exhibitions at Epic Skatepark in Birmingham, working on a project for Grizedale Arts in Egremont (Cumbria), working towards a touring solo show at City Gallery (Leicester) in 2008, a two person show at Castlefield Gallery (Manchester), late 2007, a solo project with the ICA (London) and curating a large scale touring project rooted in the relationships between art and skateboarding, being partnered by Middlesbrough Institute of Modern Art, Milton Keynes Art Gallery, the ICA, Chapter (Cardiff) and City Gallery (Leicester).

Mark also lectures in Fine Art at Nottingham Trent University, and is a freelance journalist for a-n Magazine.

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