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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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.
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, […]
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 […]
Nunhead Illuminations installed on top of a disused nursery building on Nunhead Green for the 8th Nunhead Open. Open submission exhibition and performance and site specific work over two weekends hosted by artist run Surgery projects.