Artist who did a foundation art and design course at Leicester Polytechnic, 1988–9; gained a first-class fine art honours degree from Liverpool Polytechnic, 1989–92; his master’s at Manchester Metropolitan University, 1992–3; and a postgraduate certificate in education at Bolton Institute, 1995–6. Group shows included Northern Young Contemporaries, Whitworth Art Gallery, Manchester (prize winner), 1993; Select, Bluecoat Gallery, Liverpool, 1996; 9th Oriel Mostyn Open, Llandudno, 1997–8; and in 1998, mounted by the group Core, All in the Mind, at West Cheshire Hospital, Chester, a former mental institution, and Turnpike Gallery, Leigh. There, Fitzmaurice played on the notion of the patients’ childlike dependence on the institution and its staff by making deliberately confusing collages of words and pictures from children’s books, displaying them behind the glass of fire alarms.