Sacha Craddock

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Sacha Craddock
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Born
New Zealand
NationalityBritish
EducationCentral Saint Martins
Known forArt critic, writer, curator

Sacha Craddock (born August 6, 1955) is an independent art critic, writer & curator based in London. Craddock is co-founder of Artschool Palestine, co-founder or the Contemporary Art Award and council member of the Abbey Awards in Painting at the British School at Rome, Trustee of the Shelagh Cluett Trust, and President of the International Association of Art Critics AICA UK.[1] She was Chair of the Board of New Contemporaries and selection process from 1996 until December 2021.[2]

Life and career[]

Born in New Zealand, Craddock relocated to Oxford as a child before moving to London in 1973, there she went on to help formulate one of the city's most well-known squats on Tolmers Square in Euston.[3] Craddock continues to live communally along with some of the original Tolmer's residents.[4] After completing a degree in fine art painting at Central St Martins, and a post-graduate painting degree at Chelsea School of Art, Craddock began writing art criticism for The Guardian newspaper in 1988, her first review appearing in the 26 May issue of the paper.[5] Later Craddock was also a regular art columnist for The Times. In this capacity, Craddock reviewed exhibitions of many up and coming Young British Artists, and was the only journalist to review the pre-YBA exhibition: Freeze, which featured early work by artists such as Damien Hirst, Sarah Lucas, and Mat Collishaw.[6] In 1996 Craddock became chair of Bloomberg New Contemporaries (formerly Young Contemporaries).[7]

Her commitment to contemporary art encompasses curating, organizing, promoting, setting up structures, education, critical writing, and creating new networks designed to bring artists and audiences together.

Craddock has judged many art prizes, such as the Turner Prize in 1999[8] and the John Moores Painting Prize in 2008.[9] In 2005 Craddock co-founded ArtSchool Palestine (ASP) with Charles Asprey, and Samar Martha, in order to promote and support Palestinian artists and aid their participation in international contemporary art exhibitions and biennales. ASP has held many events and exhibitions, including "As If By Magic", to which the British artist Damien Hirst lent his support.[10][11]

She is currently working on a publication about the changing attitudes to contemporary art in Britain, commissioned by Reaktion Books. Craddock has one daughter, Augusta Riddy.

Curatorial and art critic activities[]

Craddock's curatorial practice is informed by the current political situation, her ongoing interest in national and international new works, and her research into the public, private, educational, and institutional aspects of British Art in 1988, just before the advent of the internet.

Sacha Craddock was the co-founder of Bloomberg Space and its curator from 2002-2011.[12] More recently, Craddock's curatorial contribution includes Gillian Wearing at IVAM Institut Valencià d'Art Modern, Valencia, Spain, 2015, Turner Prize 2017 at Hull, 'Strike Site' at Backlit Gallery in Nottingham, 2018, the SPECTRUM Art Award 2018 at Saatchi Gallery, and Creekside Open and Exeter Contemporary Open in 2019.[13][14][15]

Craddock has written on contemporary international artists, including Alison Wilding, Laura Ford, Mark Boulos, Benjamin Senior, Angus Fairhurst, Richard Billingham, Jose Dávila, Chantal Joffe, Mustafa Hulusi, Andreas Reiter Raabe, Cornelia Parker, Phyllida Barlow, Heri Dono, Wolfgang Tillmans, Rosa Lee, Young In, Chris Ivey, and Alberto Savinio.[16][17][18]

Other collaborations and activities[]

  • Myriad Editions, Graphic Novel Competition, guest judge (2020)[19]
  • The Incorporated Edwin Austin Abbey Memorial Scholarships and Award, The British School at Rome, board member (2010–present)[20]
  • The Shelagh Cluett Trust, trustee (2019)
  • Royal Academy, The definers of success: The Successful Artist? panel discussion with artist Yinka Shonibare MBE RA, Head of the RA Schools, Eliza Bonham Carter, and the Director of Ikon Gallery Jonathan Watkins chaired by art critic and curator Sacha Craddock (2018)[21]
  • The International Awards for Art Criticism, IAAC 5, selection panel (2018)[22]
  • Vitrine Gallery, Symposium Public Sculpture: From Process to Place, guest panellist (2015)[23]
  • TATE Museum, American Artist Lecture Series, guest lecturer (2014)[24]
  • Pangaea Sculptors' Centre, True Or False: There’s No Such Thing As Sculpture, a curated conversation with Liliane Lijn, Elizabeth Neilson, Ossian Ward, Toby Ziegler and Sacha Craddock as chair (2013)[25]
  • John Moores 25, Contemporary Painting Prize, guest judge (2008)[26]
  • Braziers International Workshop, chair (1999- 2004)
  • Venice Biennale, A series of three breakfast meetings, contributor (2003)[27]
  • Open Sculpture, The Royal West of England Academy, selection committee (2003)
  • Jerwood Foundation Painting Prize, guest judge (2001)
  • Turner Prize, guest judge (1999)[28]
  • The Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea, public art Advisor (2009-2010)
  • Fondazione MACC, Sardinia, chair member

Selected bibliography[]

Selected books[]

  • Women artists : a conversation, Sacha Craddock; Fine Art Society, 2017.[29]
  • Paul Hamlyn 'Here': Paintings, Sacha Craddock, Michael Richardson (editor), Art Space Gallery, 2012.
  • Goodbye to London: Radical Art & Politics in the 1970s, Sacha Craddock, Peter Cross, Homer Sykes, Astrid Proll, Hatje Cantz, 2011.[30]
  • Nothing in the World but Youth, Iain Aitch, Sacha Craddock, Jon Savage, Turner Contemporary, 2011.[31]
  • Angus Fairhurst, Sacha Craddock, James Cahill, Philip Wilson Publishers, 2009.[32]
  • The Turner Prize and British art, Louisa Buck; Mark Lawson, novinar.; Grayson Perry; Lionel Shriver; Tom Morton; Michael Bracewell; Sacha Craddock; Katharine Stout; Nicholas Serota, London : Tate Publishing, 2007.[33]
  • Chantal Joffe, Neal Brown, Sacha Craddock, Victoria Miro, 2008.[34]
  • B.Read: 8: The Producers: Contemporary Curators in Conversation, Sacha Craddock, Andrew Renton, Jonathan Watkins, Laura Godfrey-Isaacs, James Putnam, Barbara London & Sarah Martin, Susan Hiller (editors), BALTIC Centre for Contemporary Art, 2002.[35]
  • L' anti-monument : les mots de Paris, Jochen Gerz, Sacha Craddock, [Arles u.a.] : Actes Sud, 2002.[36]
  • Art for All? Their Policies and Our Culture, Mark Wallinger and Mary Warnock (editors), London : Peer, 2001.[37]
  • A Split Second of Paradise: Live Art, Installation and Performance, Childs, Nicky; Walwin, Jeni; Craddock, Sacha; Etchells, Tim; Kent, Sarah; Khan, Naseem; Levy, Deborah; Lomax, Yve; MacRitchie, Lynn; Phillips, Andrea; Warner, Marina, 1998.[38]
  • Cathy de Monchaux, Mark Gisbourne, Louisa Buck, Sacha Craddock, Kathy Acker, Whitechapel Art Gallery, 1997.
  • Elizabeth Ogilvie: Island Within, Tessa Jackson, Kenneth White, Sacha Craddock, Arnolfini, 1995.
  • Gravity & Grace: The Changing Condition of Sculpture 1965–1975, Sacha Craddock, Hayward Publishing, 1993.

Selected essays[]

  • Sadang B: Young In Hong for Korean Artist Prize exhibition catalogue, 2019.
  • Andreas Reiter Raabe for exhibition catalogue, 2019.
  • Fundamental Concerns for Jose Dávila - Not All Those Who Wander Are Lost exhibition catalogue, 2018.[39]
  • Beau Travail for book Mark Boulos, 2017.[40]
  • Towards a Greater Artistic Freedom for Preoccupying Zones: The Young Artist of the Year 2004. The Hassan Hourani Award, 2004.[41]
  • Cornelia Parker for the book Sculpture in 20th-century Britain, 2003.[42]
  • Anna Barriball for Recognition, Arnolfini, for exhibition catalogue, 2003.[43]
  • Reinventing the Wheel for book Art: What Is It Good For?, 2002.[44]
  • Light After Dark for LUX Europæ, 1993.[45]

Selected articles[]

  • "Sacha Craddock: New Order: Art, Product Image, 1976–95" for Burlington Contemporary magazine, 2019.[46]
  • "Sacha Craddock on Alberto Savinio" for PICPUS #21, PICPUS press, 2018.[47]
  • "London, Points of Departure" for Artasiapacific, Issue 85, Sep / Oct 2013.
  • "Review Europe" for ArtReview, Issue 47, 2011.
  • "Mike Nelson" for ArtReview, Issue 20, March 2008.
  • "Cultural Checkpoint" for Artasiapacific, Issue 61: 15th Anniversary Special Issue, 2008.
  • "Goshka Macuga" for Contemporary Magazine, Issue 64, 2004.
  • "Embedded: Sacha Craddock on Politics in Art" for Contemporary Magazine, Issue 69, 2004.
  • "Thomas Struth" for Contemporary 21, No 67, 2004.
  • "World Review England" for Art Price, Vol. 002, 2003.
  • "David Cotterrell" for Beck's Futures 2002.
  • "Art as a Museum…Museum as Art" for The British Museum Magazine, No 41, Autumn/ Winter 2001.
  • "In and Out of the Sun: Sacha Craddock on Francis Alÿs" for Contemporary Art Magazine, No 21, Spring 2000.
  • "More Questions Than Answers" for Public Art Journal, Volume 1, Number 1, March 1999.
  • "Review Piece: Sacha Craddock has the last word on Sensation" for Creative Camara Magazine, Issue 349, 1997.
  • "Art Review, Sigmar Polke at Tate Gallery Liverpool" for Art+Text, 1995.

About Craddock[]

  • Tali Silver, "Omelet and Muscadet with Sacha Craddock: Sacha Craddock in conversation with Tali Silver", Luncheon- No2 magazine, Autumn 2016.
  • "Freeze: Defrosted", Review of Freeze from 1988, Time Out London, 2008.
  • Matthew Sweet, "The Bloomsbury Set" The Sunday Times, 1999.[48]

References[]

  1. ^ "Executive Committee – AICA UK". Retrieved 7 November 2020.
  2. ^ "New Contemporaries Chair Sacha Craddock steps down after extraordinary service to the arts". FAD Magazine. 6 December 2021. Retrieved 31 January 2022.
  3. ^ Sacha, Craddock (2011). Goodbye to London: Radical Art & Politics in the 1970's. Hatje Cantz. pp. 34–39. ISBN 978-3775727396.
  4. ^ Craddock, Sacha (2011). Goodbye to London: Radical Art & Politics in the 1970's. Hatje Cantz. ISBN 978-3775727396.
  5. ^ "Death in Fine Detail". The Guardian. 26 May 1988.
  6. ^ Craddock, Sacha (24 July 2008). "'Freeze': Defrosted". Time Out.
  7. ^ "top picks of drawing biennial". Retrieved 25 June 2013.
  8. ^ "Turner Prize shortlist announced 1999". Retrieved 25 June 2013.
  9. ^ "Painting prize shortlist revealed". BBC. Retrieved 5 July 2013.
  10. ^ Damien Hirst's £50 masterpiece The Independent September 2006
  11. ^ "ArtSchool Palestine". Retrieved 5 July 2013.
  12. ^ Sacha Craddock; Bev Bytheway; Sally O'Reilly; New Contemporaries (1988) Limited. Bloomberg new contemporaries 2003. ISBN 0954084829.
  13. ^ "Gillian Wearing". Ivam. Retrieved 7 November 2020.
  14. ^ "Turner Prize 2017 opens". Visit Hull. Retrieved 7 November 2020.
  15. ^ "STRIKE SITE". BACKLIT. Retrieved 7 November 2020.
  16. ^ Sacha Craddock; Brigitte Kölle; Valentina Jager (2018). Jose Dávila: the feather & the elephant. Berlin: Hatje Cantz. ISBN 3775744223.
  17. ^ Sacha Craddock (2008). Landscapes, 2001-2003: Richard Billingham. Stockport : Dewi Lewis. ISBN 9781904587385.
  18. ^ Sacha Craddock; Laura Ford; Hans-Peter Miksch; Christian Rogge; Gautier Deblonde (2016). Laura Ford - sculptures and drawings. Fürth Kunst Galerie Fürth. ISBN 9783981385823.
  19. ^ "Myriad First Graphic Novel Competition". myriadeditions.com. Retrieved 7 November 2020.
  20. ^ "Abbey Awards". abbey.org.uk. Retrieved 7 November 2020.
  21. ^ "The definers of success | Event | Royal Academy of Arts". www.royalacademy.org.uk. Retrieved 10 November 2020.
  22. ^ "JURIES_International Awards for Art Criticism（IAAC）". www.iaac-m21.com. Retrieved 7 November 2020.
  23. ^ "Public Sculpture, from Process to Place - Pangaea Sculptors' Centre". www.pangaeasculptorscentre.com. Retrieved 10 November 2020.
  24. ^ Tate. "American Artist Lecture Series: Spencer Finch: In conversation with Sacha Craddock – Talk at Tate Modern". Tate. Retrieved 7 November 2020.
  25. ^ "True or False: There's No Such Thing as Sculpture - Pangaea Sculptors' Centre". www.pangaeasculptorscentre.com. Retrieved 12 November 2020.
  26. ^ "John Moores exhibition 25". National Museums Liverpool. Retrieved 7 November 2020.
  27. ^ International Venice agendas 2003 : a series of three breakfast meetings. London : Wimbledon School of Art : Cardiff : Cardiff School of Art & Design ; Venice : Nuova Icona Gallery. 2003. ISBN 0948327170.
  28. ^ Tate. "Turner Prize 1999 – Exhibition at Tate Britain". Tate. Retrieved 7 November 2020.
  29. ^ Women artists : a conversation. Terzi, Sara., Craddock, Sacha., Fine Art Society. London. ISBN 978-1-907052-75-0. OCLC 994234783.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: others (link)
  30. ^ Good bye to London : radical art & politics in the 70's. Schönauer, Walter., Proll, Astrid., Neue Gesellschaft für Bildende Kunst. Ostfildern: Hatje Cantz. 2010. ISBN 3-7757-2739-6. OCLC 676734014.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: others (link)
  31. ^ Revealed : Turner Contemporary opens. Buren, Daniel., Turner Contemporary (Arts organization : Margate, England). Margate: Turner Contemporary. 2011. ISBN 978-0-9552363-3-4. OCLC 727701321.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: others (link)
  32. ^ Craddock, Sacha (2009). Angus Fairhurst. Fairhurst, Angus., Cahill, James, 1985-, Sadie Coles HQ., Arnolfini (Organization). London: PWP, in association with Sadie Coles HQ. ISBN 978-0-85667-659-8. OCLC 232131145.
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  34. ^ Joffe, Chantal (2008). Chantal Joffe. Brown, Neal, 1955-, Victoria Miro Gallery. London: Victoria Miro Gallery. ISBN 978-0-9554564-5-9. OCLC 298793131.
  35. ^ The producers : contemporary curators in conversation. 5. Hiller, Susan., Martin, Sarah, 1972-, University of Newcastle upon Tyne. Department of Fine Art., Baltic Centre for Contemporary Art. Gateshead: BALTIC. 2002. ISBN 1-903655-13-7. OCLC 54016619.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: others (link)
  36. ^ L'anti-monument : Les mots de Paris : Jochen Gerz. Arles: Actes Sud. 2002. ISBN 2-7427-3904-1. OCLC 401477783.
  37. ^ Art for all? : their policies and our culture. Wallinger, Mark, 1959-, Warnock, Mary. London: PEER. 2000. ISBN 0-9539772-0-X. OCLC 46837711.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: others (link)
  38. ^ A split second of paradise : live art, installation and performance. Childs, Nicky., Walwin, Jeni. London: Rivers Oram Press. 1998. ISBN 1-85489-098-0. OCLC 39381575.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: others (link)
  39. ^ Dávila, Jose. Not all those who wander are lost. Travesía Cuatro. [Madrid]. ISBN 978-84-946663-5-3. OCLC 1135876231.
  40. ^ Boulos, Mark. Mark Boulos. Schum, Matthew, Boulos, Mark, 1975- (English ed.). Berlin. ISBN 3-7757-4269-7. OCLC 965130256.
  41. ^ Afniyah shāghilah : musābaqat al-fannān al-shāb lil-ʻām 2004 : Jāʼizat Ḥasan al-Ḥūrānī. Muʼassasat ʻAbd al-Muḥsin al-Qaṭṭān., مؤسسة عبد المحسن القطان. (al-Ṭabʻah 1 ed.). Rām Allāh: Muʼassasat ʻAbd al-Muḥsin al-Qaṭṭān. 2006. ISBN 9950-313-21-X. OCLC 123964025.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: others (link)
  42. ^ Sculpture in 20th century Britain. Henry Moore Institute (Leeds, England). Leeds, England: Henry Moore Institute. 2003. ISBN 1-900081-98-9. OCLC 54684971.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: others (link)
  43. ^ Recognition. Barriball, Anna, 1972-, Musgrave, David, 1973-, Ashton, Edwina, 1965-, Mackintosh, David, 1966-, Roberts, Catsou., Morrisey, Simon. Bristol: Arnolfini. 2003. ISBN 0-907738-75-3. OCLC 60379286.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: others (link)
  44. ^ Art : what is it good for?. Cummings, Dolan., Institute of Ideas. London: Hodder & Stoughton. 2002. ISBN 0-340-84837-5. OCLC 49205378.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: others (link)
  45. ^ Lux Europae : outdoor light installations by 35 European artists across the city of Edinburgh. Lux Europae Trust. Edinburgh: Lux Europae Trust. 1993. ISBN 0-9521058-0-2. OCLC 28182977.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: others (link)
  46. ^ Sacha Craddock (6 September 2019). "New Order: Art, Product, Image, 1976–95". Burlington Contemporary.
  47. ^ "Sacha Craddock on Alberto Savinio". Charles Asprey - Tyers Street. Picpus Press.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link)
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