Collection: George Squires
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George Squires is an artist whose work acknowledges that any object, however common or inert, is potentially rich in significance. Through processes of collection, organisation and display he uncovers new relations which are spatial, bodily, and poetic. Squires’ work is part of a system, a great material rhythm; mass-produced and hand-made furniture, spent silicone moulds, broken shells washed onto the beach. By bringing found objects into dialogue with fragments and copies, Squires’ practice engages with material and cultural cycles, processes of transformation, and constitutes a form of cultural reproduction.
George Squires (b. 1998) is an emerging artist who lives and works on Gadigal land, Sydney, where he studied Sculpture at the National Art School (2020-2022). In 2021 he was awarded the Dr John Vallance Prize for Sculpture. He has exhibited in group shows and prizes across Sydney including Sculpture at Sawmillers (2022) Mild Animals (2022), and eshgh bazi – Warden’s Last Kiss (2022). Squires is currently working for Schmick Contemporary, Sydney, and will be featured in their upcoming show Catwalk (2022). He is also the recent recipient of the Knulp Exhibition Award, and will exhibit at Knulp, Sydney, in 2023.
