Born in Dublin, Ireland, the artist studied at St. Oswald’s School of Painting in London from 2004 to 2007 and earned his Master of Fine Arts degree, specializing in painting, from the Royal College of Art in London in 2015. Fitzpatrick works with painting, sculpture, text, and, more recently, video. Through his work, he explores human consciousness through the lens of biology.
He has exhibited throughout much of the United Kingdom and Europe, and has recently participated in exhibitions in New York and Mexico. The artist presented his first institutional solo exhibition, Alpha Salad, at The Tetley in Leeds in 2022, and subsequently, in 2024, he opened his first institutional solo exhibition in France at La Ferme du Buisson in Noisiel, near Paris.
Using sinuous lines that evoke Art Nouveau details, and blending them with Gothic and macabre elements, the artist creates elaborate, fantastical paintings of mysterious figures and mutating forms. Much of his work features figurative elements transformed into static, infrastructural elements: human bodies become mechanical, forming spaces to inhabit or traverse.
Fitzpatrick’s work is filled with highly stylized musculoskeletal structures, ornate plant forms, and insects that link these subjects to the earth or point toward the interconnection of different species. The artist draws inspiration from the science of cellular structures (particularly mitochondria), metaphysical poetry, mythologies, and a variety of archetypal figures, often viewed through the lens of class and sexuality.
