Kate Squires is an artist and researcher, living in London. She is an Associate Lecturer (Fine Art) at Bath School of Art where she is part of Material:Pedagogy:Future in the Research Centre, Bath Spa University. She works as associate artist and education consultant (Tate Learning, Whitstable Biennial, Backlit, The British Library.) She is working towards a PhD in Fine Art (Practice -based) at UCA, Canterbury. In 2019 she was resident artist in the Materials Cupboard, Tate Modern in collaboration with Tate Learning. In 2015 she was artist in residence in Learning and was commissioned to develop an Open Studio at Tate Modern. Between 2009 and 2014 she founded and organised Centrum, Berlin, an artist project space in Berlin, Germany. She has worked in gallery education for over fifteen years both as an artist, and curator. Roles have included Communities Curator and Head of Education and Public Programmes at Whitechapel Gallery and she was Head of Education at Camden Arts Centre between 2003-08 and 2014-17. She has exhibited in the UK and Berlin including the Herbert Read Gallery, Canterbury; Tintype, London and the online platform, Skelf. She is a trustee for Action Space which supports artists with learning disabilities.
Studio address: SPACE, 10 Martello Terrace, London E8 3 PE
Selected Exhibitions, Residencies and Exhibitions:
‘As Seen’ 2020 Jenny Dunseath and Kate Squires in Ways & Means Skelf (online) 22 July – 20 October 2020 www.skelf.co.uk
Materials Cupboard Residency, Tate Modern January 31 –February 30 2020
‘1-43’ (Performance) Sound and Salon Pearl Home Records, 7 December 2019
After Bauhaus Herbert Read Gallery, 18 October – 2 November 2019 with, Katerina Blannin, Ian Bottle, Moyra Derby, Anthony Heywood, Joan Key, Anne Sorenson, Sara Trillo, Jessica Voorsanger
‘Flour, Salt, PVA’ (Performance) Pearl Home Records Launch Pearl Home Records, 7 June 2019 with Sally Childs, Dominique Golden, Shona Handley, Helen Maurer, Adam Kindsey,
Isolation auflösen Projektraum Bethanien, Berlin 15-18 March 2019
1d for Abroad Tintype, London. 7 March – 6 April 2019
Sound Response The Groyne Gallery 25 November 2018, with Sally Child, Graham Dunning, Evie, Shona Handley, Adam Kinsey, Helen Maurer, Sue Philips, Tom Philips and Schroeder and Smith,
Method/ Results 5: Experimental Sound Art One Hundred Years Gallery 6 December 2018, with Sally Child Dominique Golden, Chris Hill, Tansey Spinks and Ed Shipsey organised by Graham Dunning
Work Work, Tintype, London. 2 November – 2 December 2017. Curated by Jo Addison, Adam Gillam and Mark Harris with Jo Addison, Buffet d’art, Rachel Cattle, Jenny Dunseath, Adam Gillam, Brian Griffiths, Mark Harris, Kevin Hunt, Hollington & Kyprianou, Dean Kenning, Natasha Kidd, Neill Kidgell, John Lawrence, Anna Lucas, Mary Maclean, Zoë Mendelson, Max Mosscrop, Harold Offeh, Alex Schady, Bob & Roberta Smith, Kate Squires, Emma Talbot, Mandy Ure, Roxy Walsh, We Are Publication, Michelle Williams Gamaker
Lab of Works: Ideas for Experiments, Camden Arts Centre 13-16 June 2017, with Judith Brockelhurst
Immateriality: Possibilities and Experiences Herbert Read Gallery, curated by Kate Squires, Canterbury 4-13 April 2016, with Penny Claydon, Chris Day, Roselle Emmanuele, Alison McFaddon, Anna Falcini, Michael Halpin, Peta Jacobs, Jennie Jewitt, Denise Jones, Guisy Pirotta, Hawra Salmon, Erin Solomons, Clare Beattie
Things Unfixed selected and compiled by Jo Addison Tintype, London Fri 4 Dec 2016
with Adam Gillam, Hatty Lee, Bill Leslie, Anna Lucas, Hollington & Kyprianou, Joanne Hooton, Lucy Newman, Louis Nixon, Alex Schady, Kate Squires
Exhibition: KIOSK n°7, Laure Catugier & Maycec and Friends, Erratum Galerie, Berlin 15-22 May 2015 http://www.kiosk.clementineroy.com/KIOSK60.htmlx
Ooo Mmm Open Studio, installation, Tate Modern, Clore Studio, 19 February -April 1 2015
Swim, solo exhibition/commission, Sheffield Institute of Art, Sheffield April/ May 2014
The Unnameable Things, solo exhibition, Das Gift, Berlin Sept. 2013
The Edge of The Real, group show with Nicoll Ullrick, Angela Ender and Stefanie Sofort June 2013
Art on the Table Institute Cervantes London: Greta Alfaro, Lynne Collins, Marisa González, Natuka Honrubia, Kate Squires, Matthew Cowan & anak & monoperro, London February 2011
GHost, London Art Fair, January 2011
Spatial Relations, curated by Waffelfische, Centrum, Berlin, December 2010
GHost III, Bethnal Green, London December 2010
The Things That Never Happened: Katrin Albrecht, Nele Hoffman, Kate Squires, Ross Walker, Krauzberg Pavillion, Skalitzer 140_temporary, Berlin, October 2010
Cautionary Tales group exhibition Santa Monica Studios, California USA 2009
Wolpertinger, exhibition and performance Loophole, Berlin 2009
My Penguin, 39 Gallery, London 2008
Stolen Recordings-Artists from Bands, Aquarium Gallery, London UK 2007/8
The Works of Others, group exhibition Whitechapel Gallery, London UK 2007
A Big Hand For. . ., Group Exhibition, Nottingham Museums and Castles Art Gallery, 1996
Curatorial:
Immateriality: Possibilities and Experiences Herbert Read Gallery, University of the Creative Arts curated by Kate Squires, Canterbury 4-13 April 2016, with Clare Beattie, Penny Claydon, Chris Day, Roselle Emmanuele, Alison McFaddon, Anna Falcini, Michael Halpin, Peta Jacobs, Jennie Jewitt, Denise Jones, Guisy Pirotta, Hawra Salmon, Kate Squires and Erin Solomons. Curated by Kate Squires alongside Fine Art Research conference: Immateriality: Possibilities and Experiences with keynote speaker: Nicholas Bourriard, organised by Clare Beattie, Hawra Salmon and Kate Squires
The Edge of The Real, group show at Centrum, Berlin: Angela Ender and Stefanie Sofort, Kate Squires, Nicoll Ullrick. Curated by Kate Squires June 2013
Founder, director, Centrum, Berlin project space, Berlin 2009-2014
Residencies:
Artist in Residence, Materials Cupboard, Learning, Tate Modern December –January 2019 (halted due to Covid 19)
Summer Artist in Residence, Scottish Sculpture Workshop, July-August 2018
Artist in Residence, Learning, Tate Modern, September 2014 –July 2015
Sheffield Institute of Art/ Sheffield University Hallam Leading to solo exhibition. Feb- March 2014
The Guesthouse, Cork, Ireland, March 2014 with Oona Quigley / Centrum Berlin, August –September 201 Berlin April 2011 with Claire Waffel
Publications:
J is for Joining by Kate Squires in c in collaboration with Schools and Teachers, Tate London Learning, 2019
W is for Whiteread Kate Squires in collaboration with Schools and Teachers, Tate London Learning, July 2017/
E is for Eyes by Kate Squires in collaboration with Schools and Teachers, Tate London Learning http://www.tate.org.uk/download/file/fid/47879 April 2016/ KIOSK artist publication, Paris April 2014 www.kiosk.clementineroy.com/KIOSK60.htmlx/Exhibition text: Falling to Earth, Sehen Sweklos: Clémence Grieco Katrin Heister und Silke Kästner mit Einführung: Kate Squires ‘. Galerie Ursula Walters, Dresden 28.2.15-15.3.15/‘Cultural Positions’ with Peter Winkels: 6th Berlin Biennial for Contemporary Art KW Institute for Contemporary Art Auguststraße 69 10117 Berlin http://www.rueckkopplungen.de/
Recent Guest Lectures:
Sheffield Hallam University to BA and MA Fine Art students February 2021
UAL: Central Saint Martins to MA and BA Fine Art June 2020;
Yorkshire Sculpture International Symposium, September 2019
Kingston University May 2019
Central Saint Martins Associate Programme, April 2019
Statement
I work within the domain of sculpture, an expanded practice in which education, performance and film help to unravel and create new connections. I make ambiguous objects that sit, with more than one reading, between literalness and illusion. They communicate the idea of use and material approach draws on industrial processes via the often laborious, hand-made or DIY. A set up which pitches function against materiality, surface against depth. The process creates wrongness, slippages which aid doubt and question the connection between surface and form. Language as both material in the work and atmosphere surrounding the work forms and dissolves and ultimately asks ontological questions. I am excited by things as they appear to us: high-street displays of mass-produced stuff and the self-forming shapes at the fruit and veg stalls. The aim is to create objects that call out both as a contemporary art object and as an object outside of this frame