VITRINE, London is delighted to announce a solo exhibition by London-based artist Jamie Fitzpatrick in February 2016. Fitzpatrick’s practice deals with the rhetoric of image making, the relevance of the figure and how objects and totemic gestures such as flags, statues or plinths are used within the work to impose forms of power, authority and control. By employing the motifs of figurative art, patriarchal depictions of masculinity and nationhood, Fitzpatrick’s domineering sculptures express intention of undermining them, rendering them absurd and dumb.

Since graduating from the Royal College of Art in 2015, Fitzpatrick has exhibited widely across the UK, including; UK/RAINE: a collaboration between the Firtash Founation and Saatchi Gallery, exhibiting the work of emerging artists from UK and Ukraine, in which he was awarded the Sculpture Prize; New Contemporaries 2015 in Primary & Backlit, One Thoresby Street, Nottingham and ICA, London; Cowley Manor Sculpture Garden Show, Cheltenham and Pause Patina at Camden Arts Centre, London. Fitzpatrick is also part of Pangaea Sculptor’s Centre six-week Autumn Residency Programme showcasing the works within two exhibitions: Taking Shape: Sculpture on the Verge and Which one of these is the non-smoking lifeboat?

Spanning sculpture, painting, installation, spoken word and sound, works attempt to heighten and question the experience of what it means to stand in front of something that has been made with the express intention of supporting, qualifying or glorifying an ideal of authority, placing its viewer under a state of subordination. For this ambitious site-specific installation, curated by Chris Bayley, Fitzpatrick will exploit the limitations of the 16-metre vitrine as a means to further disrupt and undermine the works. By breaking the sanctity of the sited exhibition and working towards creating temporal shifts as a means of both undermining the sculptural arrogance of permanence; works will dominate and alter their environment through sound and motorised movement. By doing so, these works acknowledge their own confinements of the vitrine, adopting the inherent limitations to their advantage. Jamie Fitzpatrick’s forthcoming exhibition is generously supported by Arts Council England, with additional support from Diversity Arts Forum.

Jamie Fitzpatrick (b.1985) lives and works in London. He graduated in 2015 with an MA in Sculpture from the Royal College of Art, having gained a BA (Hons) in Fine Art, Philosophy and Contemporary Practice in 2009 from Duncan of Jordanstone College of Art, Dundee. Solo exhibitions include; Into the Hands of Housewives & Children, Telfer Gallery, Glasgow (2012) and Jamie Fitzpatrick, Gallery of Wonder, Hancock Museum, Newcastle (2011) Group exhibitions include; UK/RAINE, Saatchi Gallery, London (2015), New Contemporaries, ICA, London (2015), Which one of these is the non-smoking lifeboat? and Taking Shape: Sculpture on the Verge, Pangaea Sculptor’s Centre, London (2015), Off The Wall, HQS Wellington, London (2015), Cowley Manor Sculpture Garden Show, Cheltenham, (2015), Pause Patina, Camden Arts Centre, London (2015), The Day Job, Hoxton Basement, London (2014), Of Natural and Mystical Things, Royal Scottish Academy, Edinburgh (2012), A Grand Day Out, Kelvingrove Museum, Glasgow (2012) and Now I Know my ABC’s, SWG3, Glasgow (2009). Fitzpatrick has received various Funding, Awards and Residencies including; Cowley Manor, Cheltenham (2015), Pangaea Sculptors’ Centre, London (2015), LAND Securities Award (2015), Sidney Perry Foundation (2013 & 2015), Mijoda Trust (2014), The Leatherseller’s Company (2014), Telfer Gallery, Glasgow (2012), John Kinross Scholarship, Florence, Italy (2010), Cite International des Arts, Paris Residency (2009), Scottish Sculpture Workshop (2009), Dundee Visual Artist Award Bursary (2009), Wasps Studio Prize, Dundee (2009) and George Duncan of Drumfork Scholarship (2008).