Biography

Robert Fitzmaurice grew up in Coventry, where contrasts between the old and new cathedrals, the history of the blitz and his father's accounts of being a prisoner of war influenced his young imagination. After studying Fine Art in Sunderland he took a studio with Sunderland Artists Group for a year before moving south to take his MFA at Reading University.

Early encounters with the painters John Emanuel and Adrian Heath turned into long term friendships, and their insights into material processes and approaches to abstraction have served as important touchpoints in his own studio practice.

Invention and abstraction of the figure characterises his output. His main discipline is painting but he regularly turns to other media, especially printmaking and sculpture to consider how art can be created and interpreted. He summarises his practice as “working to conjure a presence”.

Selected group exhibitions include Whitworth Young Contemporaries, Manchester; NN Contemporary, Northampton; Creekside, APT Gallery, London, and LichtundFire, New York City. Solo exhibitions include 'Artist of the Day,' Angela Flowers Gallery, London; 'No Eden' Greenham Control Tower, Newbury; and 'No Sudden Moves', West Berkshire Museum.

He lives and works full-time on his art in Reading, Berkshire.