Ms Kate Squires
I am an artist, researcher, curator and educator, working towards a practice-based PhD: The Ambiguous Object: Ambiguity Between Literalness and Illusion. I am founding Director of artist project space, Centrum, Berlin which I curated and ran for four years. I worked as Head of Education at Camden Arts Centre and have produced resources and learning events at Tate Modern with Tate Learning. Exhibitions include Projektraum Bethanien, Berlin, CICA Museum, South Korea, Herbert Read, Canterbury, Sheffield Institute of Art, Tintype and 6second Gallery, London. I am a trustee for Action Space which supports artists with learning disabilities.
Kate Squires works in the domain of sculpture with performance, digital media and collaborative settings help to unravel and develop new ways of working. Ambiguous objects communicate the idea of use and consumerism, whilst material approaches draw on changing processes of mass production via the often laborious, hand-made or DIY. Spatial encounters allow the identity of these ‘part-objects’ to be in the world: surface and form unhinged and meanings destabilised. Here, within systems of language and visual systems, slippages are laid bare.
