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Leo Fitzmaurice: You Try to Tell Me But I Never Listen
New Art Gallery, Walsall
17 June - 1 October
The space on the fourth floor of New Art Gallery Walsall where Leo Fitzmaurice's 'You Try to Tell Me but I Never Listen' is shown is home to a series of large windows with thick sills for people to sit on, giving you a 180o view over Walsall town centre, and it is often what immediately attracts visitors, as proven by my sitting in a bay for over two hours. Large families, groups of teenagers and an odd looking art student came into the space and went straight for the windows, before spending approximately thirty seconds with Fitzmaurice's work - and that was a real shame. Fitzmaurice has created a beautiful continued landscape of Walsall within the gallery by using a selection of flyers and posters cut into long, thin, ceiling-to-floor strips. When sitting in the corner bay my eyes followed the skyline past the window frames and into the gallery, vivid blues with bright whites mimicked the sky; reds, browns and purples continued the line of buildings, while greys and blacks bled straight back into the gallery walls and floors. It was beautiful, particularly when children ran past the repetitive strips as they rippled with the breeze, emphasising the unreal horizon within the...
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