Charlotte Squire
I make installation and sculptural objects using textiles, salvaged objects and natural materials. I am based mostly in the southwest of england
Since moving to the South west 10 years ago, the world has changed substantially, and I have been looking at human interaction with nature and how that impacts different types of habitat, and how we might live in a more symbiotic way with the rhythms of the natural world, with greater environmental awareness.
human activity has disrupted nature – causing crisis in biodiversity, creating pollution that damages both ourselves and our environment – it has made precarious the natural habitats of diverse populations of the human and more than human who live with the consequences of environmental change caused by the ‘first’(industrial) world such as flooding, climate catastrophe, wild fires, pollution and so on
I am making work to think about how we go forward in a world where overconsumption and extraction for profit has compromised the balance of the natural ecosystem.
Lived Experience
I grew up studied and practiced out of London, first studying and working in fashion & clothing, making collections & selling small batch production before refocussing and taking an MA in Fine Art textiles at Goldsmiths. I was a founder of an artists group The Surgery, in S London, where we created programmes of exhibition, intervention and community based annual Open Shows for 10 years. After completing my MA I was funded to make a 20m long hanging illumination installation as part of the regeneration of Brixton Village listed arcade. I showed across the UK and was gained a spot at Arte Laguna in Venice, which led to an exhibition in Miami at Diana Lowenstein Fine Art.
Caring duties have run alongside my practice and I have had to step out of engaged practice on & off before moving to Plymouth just before Covid. I was badly affected by the disease and have been refocussing my work to be more agile and manageable.
Since moving South West I have become involved in CAMP artists network to engage with artists around me, and joined as a codirector to become more involved in creating an arts ecosystem that bought artists together over the 2 counties of Devon & Cornwall as there is a geographic challenge in that many artists are based in isolated rural areas without access to artist communities
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