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Threshold Figure

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Threshold figure, textile, wood 2025 The Plough Artrs Centre Torrington. Image credit Grace Rogers

Threshold figure was part of Dialogues at the Plough Arts Centre and at Discovering42 as part of FLAMM 2026

Threshold figure shows a cultural disconnectedness from nature in Western societies, using myth and magic realism to recreate connections of coherence and sentience which may have been severed.
Costume, mask and ritual objects for ceremony and performance allow participants a deep immersion into nature’s mysterious workings.

These objects are the only remaining evidence of that performance.

Stiltwalker

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small textile figure on stilts wearing a mask made of agapanthus seed heads

Stiltwalker 2024 textile, wire, wood.

Where Are We Now? at the Thelma Hulbert Gallery Honiton

Stiltwalker is a small figure striding through the landscape. Walking on stilts is something I remember from growing up in Kent, where stilt walkers were used for hop picking & stilts were a natural part of childhood games – here reimagined as a way of navigating a flooded landscape

Where Do We Go From Here?

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Eusapia at Sea photo credit Andy Keate for GHosttide, Thameside Studios

‘Where Do We Go From Here’  Workshop2 Ocean Studios Plymouth curated by Charlotte Squire

Eusapia at Sea, used sea water from Devil’s Point to connect with the site at Ocean Studios, RWY, Plymouth –  made originally for GHosttide using Thames water & lifejacket lights

Also showing a new interation of Seedhead as an interactive hanging object that audience can ‘wear”

 artists from Plymouth Kin

Dana Aala, Alan Braidford, Heather Burwell, Caroline Collingridge, Claire Gladstone, Julie Griffiths, Angela Hilton, Jacqui Jones, Monika Rycerz, Ellen Sims, Viv Spencer, Charlotte Squire, Frances Staniforth, Antonia Texidor. 

 

Seed Head

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photo credits Nicky Hirst 2022

 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 year 1 was a wonderful growing year. In year 2, my small patch of crops was decimated by unseasonal plagues of caterpillars and slugs drawing me to think about superstitions, ancient deities and past ritual practice invoked to protect the seasons cycles.

Performing Green curated by Kim Thornton provided an environment to add a performance strand to my practice that I had not previously considered

Armida’s vexation

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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 her powers as a sorceress to keep him prisoner in an enchanted garden.
In Tassos epic poem he is rescued by 2 soldiers but returns to find the distressed Armedia. She loses her power and becomes mortal to stay with him.

Armida’s Vexation part of Dreaming Awake at Safehouse1.

GHost@Camberwell Free Film Fest

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B'twixt & between-2

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 Giles Church, Camberwell Church street, SE5 8RB