George Criddle (born. 1984) is a British-Australian artist, writer, and occasional curator currently teaching at RMIT University and the Victorian College of the Arts in Melbourne. They completed a PhD in 2021 at Monash University and have previously studied at Curtin University in Perth and École des Beaux-Arts in Paris. Since 2005 George has been part of international exhibitions and residencies in Kassel, Zurich, Paris and Prague as well as exhibitions in Melbourne at The Living Museum of the West, MADA faculty Gallery, Margaret Lawrence Gallery, and artist-run spaces such as Kings, West Space, Blindside, Slopes gallery and TCB gallery. They are currently on the board of KINGS Artist Run Gallery as Co-ordinator of the Emerging Writers Program with Beatrice Rubio-Gabriel.
An experiment in the translation of an impossible literary object ‑ Charles Bovary’s cap from the novel ‘Madam Bovary’ by Gustave Flaubert. I gave this long, awkward description of Charles Bovary’s hat ‑ translated into English ‑ to Melbourne-based milliner Wendy Scully, who produced the cap. In 2016 the hat was taken in its box as hand luggage and worn to the opening of a group exhibition in Montpellier, France, by Melbourne-based artist Kalinda Vary. As an exercise before she left, I filmed her attempting to read the original description in French. The following video was made for the exhibition ‘We’ at Bundoora Homestead in 2018.