The signs mimic UK road signage systems: motorway blue; heritage brown; hazard yellow; town and village white. By placing them at these points, the artist distorts our familiarity with this category of sign which is commonly designed to give us information or point us in certain directions. In his work, Fitzmaurice makes a space in which we can consider the function and meaning of such signs.
Leo Fitzmaurice won the
Northern Art Prize 2011