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artportfolio: Maggi Squire

oh yes, he nose

oh yes, he nose

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Original
earth paint and acrylic on canvas
50.5cm x 61cm

Introduction

Statement

My art is my visual voice, my deepest response to the world. It changes and progresses intuitively in the moment. I paint often with earth as well as other paints using whatever is at hand, I make sculpture figures and installations with recycled and natural materials and move my art into mask sculpture dance performance with visual myth and story...sometimes i like to wrap,hide and reveal the unexpected in appreciayion of life's extradordinary complexity of existance!  

In my art 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!

Having always been interested in movement, expressing a sense of movement in my paintings sometimes literal movement and sometimes the idea of change of transformation or 'moving ' as in a feeling that arises. these are also what informs many of my sculptures and having made large figures for parades i now seek to bring all these into performance using mask-dance, slow moving sculpture, a visual poem a way to combine all my aspects of art. 

Thank you for looking.

Biography

March 2011 May 2ndRENEWAL group exhibition CAT Contemporary Art Tavistock
dec 2010-march 15th 2011Solo exhibition west devon borough Council
Sept 4th-Oct 9th'10DART; New Contemporary Art Gallery, Paddons Row Tavistock
Sept 4th-26th '10EDGE Sculpture Trail: 3 sculptures in Woods of Heathercombe, Dartmoor
July-Sept '10Wild Waste Worm; response to TAMED Exhib.at the Spanish Barn, Torquay...giant sculpture of recycled materials
Sept 09DAN 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
2004site 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
2006Open Studio exhibition, Tavistock , Devon uk
2006-07'of the earth' exhibition (Maggi Squire & Jo Tyler), Sherwell Gallery, Plymouth, uk
2007Open 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 08Drawn 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.