Charlotte Squire
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My work is practice based installation. My process is one of collecting, selecting & reusing mundane objects and materials that have been put to one side or discarded. I am particularly interested in the poetry of the ordinary object & its syntax. It is possible to transform the ordinary into something wonderful that belies and transcends its origin. I often use illumination as part of the construction. This is a mix-up process of assemblage - the constructed objects becoming, by their inherent pre-use, their own family portrait. Grouping them gives a sense of their own sociability and internal history that is both self contained and reflexive, yet open ended as a social encounter.
Recent Commissions
2021 Time traveller headpiece for The Hurrier Anne Robinsons improvised performance film
Selected installations
2019 Lean Times Four Legs Good Two Legs Bad curated Rebecca Feiner Q-Park Whitcombe St
2018 Eusapia Alone Ghosttide curated Monika Bobinska and Sarah Sparkes
2018 Armida's Vexation for Dreaming Awake, Safehouse Peckham, Kim Thornton, Luci Soni, Nicky Hirst, Jackie Brown, Laura Morton Griffiths, Leonie Cronin
2015-16 - House, Oriel Davies, Powys, Wales
2015 - 4409.72 miles 9125 days, Diana Lowenstein Fine Art, Miami, US
2014 The Visitors Diana Lowenstein Gallery, Miami
2014 - The Curtain Dog at The Hollow, a curation by Sarah Sparkes at Vanya Balogh & Cedric Christie's We Couldn't Agree, Q Park, Central London
2014 - Betwixt & Between, GHost at St Giles Church Camberwell Free Film Festival
2013 Small Islands#3, Airlock at Space Station Sixty Five, London SE11 4PS
2013 - Dr Edwardes Amnaesiac Dream at Dream Machine, Transition at Sluice Art Fair.
2013 Leonora & Frieda, Arsenale Venice
2013 Artoosoq, window installation 128 Blackfriars Rd
2012 Pleonasmos, DeptfordX installation St Pauls Church, London, Arts Council funded,
2011 La-di-dsh on 4th - light installation in Brixton market arcade LLB regeneration project. Arts Council Lambeth funded public commission
2011 - Strange Fruit#2 , Housework, International 3, Manchester ; Engerland Grotesque, VQ Regnant & Feste Mock Tudor, Transition Gallery offsite, London; Nunhead Illuminations, intervention, Nunhead Art Week London; Asylum first Asylum project Space SE15.
2011 Nunhead Illuminations, roof top installation for Nunhead Open London SE15.
2010 - Material Actions touring exhibition, curated by Hannah Jones, Marianne Torrence (PCA), Clive Adams (CANNW), Brenda Millar & Amy Houghton (TFSW), Plymouth, Exeter, Bath, Bristol. Ecto, Regenerate, curated by Woodrow Kernohan, Simon Martin & Nicola Coleby, Regency Town House , Brighton.
2009 'Strange Fruit', Construct/deconstruct, curated Launch Collaborative, Oxford,
Portugal>China>/Japan>Portugal>Nunhead, - artists windows commission 30 Nunhead Grn SE15
2008 - Mme Bricoleuse The Uncanny World of Interiors, Francis Hair Fashions Gallery SW12: 'The Resonances of Eusapia Paladino', Biggest & Best, Peckham, London
Artist talks and broadcasts
2022 - In Process with Lou Barnell - Women Bodies and Class discussion on Repeater radio
2021- The Feminist Library - Women, Bodies and Class with Anne Robinson, Andrea Luka Zimmerman, Ego Ahaiwe Sowinski, Lou Barnell, Chloe Carter, Polly Murphy, Alice ODonnell, Frances Dyer, Michelle Deignan, Charlotte Squire Aqui Thami
2010 - Material Actions seminar, Plymouth College of Art & Design, Plymouth Public commissions 2014 - Nunhead Open, Nunhead, annual uncurated project
Awards
- 2013 - Arte Laguna, Arsenale , Venice
- 2012 - Arts council funding for Pleonasmos
- 2011 - Nunhead Illuminations Nunhead & Peckham Community funded
Publication
2010 - Material Actions, essays Dr Kate Fletcher & Marianne Torrence, pub Aug 2010, Plymouth College of Art Press isbn 978-0-9557491-5-5 2007 - Project - Surgery projects1-6 documentation publication
Qualifications& training
2004-2006 - MFA , Goldsmiths , London
