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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
For Transition Gallery’s curated project Dream Machine at Sluice Art Fair Charlotte Squire reimagines the dream sequence from Hitchcock’s Spellbound as a compact set piece that compresses black and white, light & shadow into Hitchcock’s ideal of making a film in the smallest possible space, in a reworking of Dali’s dream scene from Hitchcock’s Spellbound. […]
Transition Gallery Unit 25a Regent Studios, 8 Andrews Road, London E8 4QN Sluice Art Fair – October 2013 The Dream Machine Kirsty Buchanan, Sarah Cleaver, Sarah Doyle, Paul Kindersley, Cathy Lomax, Alex Michon, Travis Riley, Alli Sharma, Corinna Spencer, Charlotte Squire, Mimei Thompson ‘Even though life isn’t black and white it often […]