06
Feb
2024
2024
Crashing the Ecology
Charlotte Squire’s installations in mixed media/found materials have used myth to explore city habitats and how they adapt to change, whether it be physical, technological, and geographic. Since moving to Plymouth and post covid, her practice has moved towards smaller work, and she has introduced ceramics into her work for the first time. Current work […]
29
Sep
2023
2023
Stiltwalker in Tipping Point, Studio Kind
Stiltwalker, 2023 [mixed media] – Tipping Point at Studio Kind, curated Laura Porter The process of installation is a part of my practice, but focus moves from cityscape as habitat to an exploration of human interconnections with the natural world as concerns of climate change and sustainability gain increasing urgency. The natural world will still be […]
26
May
2022
2022
Seed Head
Spirit figures in mask & costume evoke a magic realism of an older culture needing to be recalled as the natural world struggles with our careless treatment of it…. over lockdown the garden became a sanctuary to grow plants to eat and become reacquainted with the seasonal evolution of plants in my patch. Cv19 […]
29
Aug
2021
2021
Experimental filmmaker Anne Robinson’s ‘the Hurrier’
Scolds bridle, yokes for hauling, time travel flight helmet and antennae for communication – some of the elements in a head gear commission requested by artist/ film maker Anne Robinson for her in-progress improvised altered film The Hurrier , ‘exploring labour, time travel, sexuality and working class women’s bodies’ ; the constrictions and restrictions placed on women […]
01
Mar
2019
2019
‘Four Legs Good Two Legs Bad’ at Q-Park Leicester Square
One hundred international artists showing in an art take-over in an underground car park. Four legs good, two legs bad riffs on themes from George Orwell’s dystopian novel Animal Farm in a 4 day festival of art music performance and dance, celebrating the Chinese New Year of the Pig. My installation Lean Times is of […]
20
Oct
2018
2018
The Ghost Tide at Thames Side Studio Gallery
The GHost Tide, an exhibition exploring ghosts as an idea, programmed to coincide with Halloween , All Souls and the Day of the Dead, curated by GHost host artist curator Sarah Sparkes and CANAL Gallery founder Monika Bobinska. Showing the work of 30 uk and international artists. Andrea G Art, Chris Boyd, Davies Monaghan & […]
20
Jun
2018
2018
Feel Good Give Away at the Chutney Spa
Invoking the spirit of the ancient Camberwell Fair and its promise of ‘Rare doings in Camberwell’, the Chutney Preserves artist collective open a one day health and beauty spa on Camberwell Green. Offering humorous range of surreal and exclusive artist created treatments to the public. the Chutney Preserves promise to deliver ‘beyond alternative care’ to […]
06
Jun
2018
2018
Armida’s vexation
Charlotte Squire creates a sense of wonder and anxiety with her sculptural forms. Her work uses illumination to draw attention to the transformation of mundane materials into something that both engages and unsettles. This installation was created specially for Dreaming Awake as part of the Dulwich Festival. Armedia is betrayed by her mortal lover, and uses […]
12
May
2018
2018
Dreaming Awake
8 artists probe the liminal state between reality and dreams where the imagination is held as if suspended . Visual connections are made through painting, collage, installation, film, ritual, photography, sculpture and drawing, with Jacquie Brown, Leonie Cronin, Rebecca Fortnum, Nicky Hirst, Laura Moreton-Griffiths, Lucy Soni, Charlotte Squire and Kim Thornton. The architectural atmosphere and history of this […]
04
Sep
2016
2016
Uncanny World of Interiors
Our interior space for living is where we are most revealed, as here we make our most personal mark. The temporary domestic space at Caroline Place showcases the work of 8 artists and designers working with everyday materials, transforming the mundane into objects of desire. The unheimlich of Freud’s analysis wherein things pertaining to homeliness […]
18
Jul
2016
2016
The 500 Hidden Secrets of London
I am delighted my light installation in Brixton Market’s 4th avenue has been used for the cover of Tom Greig’s new book ‘The 500 Hidden Secrets of London’ pub. 2016, Luster, Antwerp
16
Jan
2016
2016
There’s no place like home
The idea of house and home can conjure up feelings of warmth and shelter. A dwelling – be it cottage or shed, tent or mansion, temporary shack or permanent residence – is usually the basis of comfort and security. Conversely, a derelict or abandoned house is often associated with discomfort, unease and absence. This exhibition […]
16
Nov
2015
2015
11
Jan
2015
2015
4409.72 miles 9125 days
4409.72 miles 9125 days Opens 21.11.14 then on ’til 31.01.15 This year Diana Lowenstein gallery is celebrating its 25th anniversary. Ombretta Agró Andruff has curated a retrospective for this milestone: 25 Years of Art Discourse from Buenos Aires to Miami It is a great honor to have been asked by Diana to curate the exhibition celebrating her gallery’s […]
27
Nov
2014
2014
The Curtain Dog
Tales of the uncanny and personal reference, a self portrait of the artist as a toy – curator Sarah Sparkes’ brief; ‘The Hollow’ formed a segment section of We Could Not Agree, an independent art event at underground venue Q-Park hosted by Geoff Leong, Cedric Christie and Vanya Balogh. The Curtain Dog stomps past surreptitiously […]
13
Jun
2014
2014
B’twixt and Between at St Giles for GHost’s two nights of classic ghost films
Camberwell free film festival at St Giles screenings with accompanying installation artworks and performances. artists: Charlotte Squire, John Workman, Sarah Doyle, Jennie Fagerstrom, Miyuki Kasahara,Calum F Kerr, Joanna McCormick and Anne Robinson. The screening is curated by Sarah Sparkes with installations and performances. B’twixt and B’tween is from a series of cabinet pieces […]
15
Apr
2014
2014
GHost@Camberwell Free Film Fest
GHost hosted two nights of classic ghost films at St Giles Church Camberwell as part of Camberwell Free Film Festival! The Innocents (dir: Jack Clayton, 1961, UK/US, Cert 12A, 100 mins) screened in the Nave of St Giles Church, Camberwell Church Street, SE5 8RB Kwaidan (Masaki Kobayashi, 1965, 185 minutes) screened in the Crypt, St […]
23
Feb
2014
2014
13
Feb
2014
2014
The Visitors, Diana Lowenstein Gallery, Miami
Selected at Arte Laguna 7 by Diana Lowenstein Fine Art, Miami, DLFA offers a show as special gallery prize to Charlotte Squire’s Strange Fruit. The lightstacks travel to Miami together with two new light installations as The Visitors, opening February 14.
05
Feb
2014
2014
Miami 2014
First day of installation at Diana Lowenstein Gallery in Downtown Miami. The space is beautiful and a pleasure to work in. Strange Fruit lightstacks unpacked & provisionally set up. Outside is 79degrees F 2 hanging pieces Pink Laogoon & Mid Pine Nights placed & hanging. Selected at Arte Laguna 7 by Diana Lowenstein Fine Art, […]