Maggi Squire

About the artist

Maggi Squire
Maggi Squire
Maggi Squire

Paint, Sculpture, Performance, Installation

Tavistock
Devon
United Kingdom

    Statement

    My art is my visual voice, my deepest response to the world. It changes and progresses intuitively in the moment. I paint with earth and other paints using whatever is at hand, make sculpture figures with recycled and natural materials and move my art into dance performance with myth and story dance.

    I challenge myself to use what is around me. I often use Devon earth as my paint as where I live is rich with different earth colours. I have noticed that earth colours are the colours of peoples' skin from all the nations of the world. For me the earth paint is a metaphor and a reminder that we are people of earth

    We are earth-kind… well a bit more of the kind would be good!

    Thank you for looking.

    Biography

    March 2011 May 2nd
    RENEWAL group exhibition CAT Contemporary Art Tavistock
    dec 2010-march 15th 2011
    Solo exhibition west devon borough Council
    Sept 4th-Oct 9th'10
    DART; New Contemporary Art Gallery, Paddons Row Tavistock
    Sept 4th-26th '10
    EDGE Sculpture Trail: 3 sculptures in Woods of Heathercombe, Dartmoor
    July-Sept '10
    Wild Waste Worm; response to TAMED Exhib.at the Spanish Barn, Torquay...giant sculpture of recycled materials
    Sept 09
    DAN Open Studio Sculpture Trail Near Chagford, Devon (Inner Self in Wild Space)
    June '09 - April '10
    'Water Bird' Sculpture at Recycled Sculpture Show, Love London at WWT Wetlands Centre, Barnes London
    2000
    'River of Colour' a SouthWest Arts 'Year of the Artist' Project, Tavistock, Devon.
    2000-01
    'River of Colour' exhibition at Porthtowen, Cornwall, Rural Dev Agency Exeter, Viewpoint Gallery. Plymouth
    2004
    site specific figures at ARTFARM, Devon
    2005
    'Tamara' sculpture figure at Mt Edgcombe Plymouth as part of a sculpture trail for Drawn to the Valley
    2005
    'Wonder-full' recycled material, part of sculpture 'TRAIL', Dawlish, Devon Uk
    2006
    Open Studio exhibition, Tavistock , Devon uk
    2006-07
    'of the earth' exhibition (Maggi Squire & Jo Tyler), Sherwell Gallery, Plymouth, uk
    2007
    Open Studio, Tavistock Devon uk
    17th-30th sept
    'Happiness' sculkpture at Willow Barn Sculpture Exhibition
    17th-30th sept 08
    'Happiness' sculkpture at Willow Barn Sculpture Exhibition
    30 aug-7 sept 08
    Drawn to The Valley Open Studios, Tavistock, Devon Uk

    My childhood experience of going to live in rural India when I was quite young had an enormous impact on my way of seeing and being in the world. My work is intuitive, I just start and see what comes sometimes its completed very quikly and sometimes it develpoes and changes over long stretches of time mapping changes that are happening within myself through changes of colour, shape and subjects, its about being aware of deep problems and deep wonders. Life is such a range of emotions and experience and sometimes painting and making sculpture and dance puts it right! Over the years I have done a lot of art and dance projects and workshops in schools and communities, carnivals and festivals. This has stretched my work to doing very large pieces and inclusive ideas.

    In my more personal work I often use earth as my paint , the ground of my being that underlyes life.

    I am intersted in myth, story and movement literally and metaphorically.and love a touch of humour.

    Exhibition History

    Sept 4th-Oct 9th'10  DART; New Contemporary Art Gallery, Paddons Row Tavistock
    Sept 4th-26th '10  EDGE Sculpture Trail: 3 sculptures in Woods of Heathercombe, Dartmoor
    July-Sept '10  Wild Waste Worm; response to TAMED Exhib.at the Spanish Barn, Torquay...giant sculpture of recycled materials
    June 09 - April '10  Water Bird Scupture at Recycled Sculpture Show .Wetlands Centre Barnes, London UK
    5th Dec -11th Jan  'Of the Earth', Sherwell Centre Gallery, Plymouth. (exhibition Maggi Squire and Jo Tyler).
    26 Ap -5 May 08  'Land & Water' Tavistock Music and Art Festival
    1-30 Aug 08  Celle , Germany
    27 -31 Aug 08  FIVE YEARS; ART IN THE VALLEY Tavistock Town Hall
    30 Aug -7Sept  Drawn to the Valley, Open Studios 08 65 Old Exeter Rd, Tavistock (11am-5pm)
    17th Jan 09  ITV Fixers Bird sculpture Displayed Plymouth City Centre
     
     

     

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