"The interplay between people and the natural environment has always been an important foundation of my work as an artist. As our world moves into an ever-more precarious place, it seems to drive the need for what Ben Okri calls existential creativity - a creativity rooted in the seismic and transformative changes which are happening around us, where hope, apathy and despair co-exist."
Andrew Squire trained as an architect at Manchester University in the 1970s, where he was exposed simultaneously to the influences of classic Modernist design and the beginnings of the radical community architecture movement.The interplay between people and the natural environment has always been an important foundation of Andrew Squire's work. His depictions of birds, beasts and human myth are thoughtful reflections on what connects and separates us as a species.
