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.

Education

2017–21: Doctor of Philosophy, Monash University, Melbourne.
2012–14: Masters of Fine Art (Research), Monash University, Melbourne.
2005–06: Bachelor of Fine Art (Honours), École Nationale Supérieure des Beaux-Arts (ENSBA) and Curtin University of Technology.
2001–04: Bachelor of Fine Art, Curtin University of Technology.

Solo Exhibitions

2024: “True Nature” (upcoming) Geraldton Regional Art Gallery, Geraldton
2022: “Dear Grower / Where’s ya mother?”, Working at Heights, Artery, Melbourne
2021: “The True Nature of What We’re Up Against” MADA Faculty Gallery, Melbourne
2017: “Studio Visit”, Melbourne’s Living Museum of the West, Melbourne
2015: “Before too long”, West Space, Melbourne
2014: “Outside the Studio I couldn’t Afford to Rent”, Cromwell Studio’s, Melbourne
2013: “Linger”, TCB Inc., Melbourne
2010: “Made in Smichov”, Moors Building, Fremantle; “Grass Carpet Series”, D.I.V.O Institute, Kolín,
2008: “Home Made”, Benzinka Slaného, Prague

Selected Group Exhibitions

2023: “It’s Not You, It’s Me”, Fiona and Sidney Myer Gallery, Melbourne; “20 year Anniversary Fundraiser”, Kings Artist Run, Melbourne; “TCB Fundraiser”, TCB Artist Run, Melbourne
2018: “Bus Fundraiser”, Bus Projects, Melbourne; “We”, Bundoora Homestead Art Center, Melbourne
2016: “Cabal”, Aperto gallery, Montpellier; “Drawings”, Artery studio 22, Melbourne
2015: “What would a Feminist Methodology Sound Like?”, West Space, Melbourne.; “The Object As Score”, Margaret Lawrence Gallery, Melbourne; “The Sweet Life”, Blindside Gallery, Melbourne
2014: “If this exhibition were a text”, Slopes gallery, Melbourne; “Practice”, TCB Inc. Melbourne, Australia
2013: “One After the Other”, Kings ARI, Melbourne; “Equinox”, AFW, Goodtime Studios, Melbourne
2012: “Variations on a Theme”, Link Space, Melbourne; “Berlin Art Junction # 5”, GIZ-Haus, Berlin
2011: “Soundscapes”, NES Studio, Skagastrond; “Post Truth”, Reference Gallery, Virginia; “Berlin Art Junction”, GIZ building, Berlin; “UferHallen Kunstaktien”, Uferhallen, Berlin; “Motel Nirvana”, Rote Fabrik, Zurich; “Poor Service 3”, La Générale en Manufacture, Paris
2010: “Time in our Head”, La Générale en Manufacture, Paris; “Planting Ideas Symposium”, D.I.V.O Institute, Kolin,; “D.I.V.O Institute Presents Fridericianum”, Kunsthalle Fridericianum, Kassel; “Tales of Ordinary Madness”, 48-Stunden Neukölln, Berlin
2008: “Cargo”, Budapest Underground, Budapest
2007: “Unpackers”, Corridor Gallery, The Meetfactory, Prague; “Collection Printemps/été”, l’Espace Electra, Paris
2006: “The Full White Cube”, Gallery Frédéric Girous, Paris
2005: “Être Dans”, Finnish Institute, Paris

Curated Exhibitions

2021: (upcoming) “Baby Queers” Hares & Hyenas Book Shop. Fitzroy, Melbourne
2017: “Fiona Macdonald: A Conceptual Retrospective” TCB Gallery, Melbourne
2010: “GARDEN//ART//ACTION”, The Stirling Gardens, Perth

Awards and Prizes

2021: Monash Completion Award
2017: Monash Postgraduate Research Scholarship
2012: Australian Post Graduate Award (APA) Monash University.

Artist Residencies

2019: North Midlands Projects, Geraldton, Western Australia
2017: The Living Museum of the West, Melbourne, Australia
2011: Nes Artist Residency, Skagaströnd, Iceland
2009: D.I.V.O Institute, artist in residence, Kolin, Czech Republic
2007: Meetfactory, Prague, Czech Republic
2008: Meetfactory, Prague, Czech Republic

Grants

2016: Creative Victoria Grant
2009: The City of Perth, Cultural Sponsorship Grant

Bibliography

Parlane, A. “Passages of Light, Interview with Hilary Jackman and George Criddle”, Memo Review, September 2021
Castle, M. “Nods all round: orientations in recent spatial practice”, un Magazine, Issue 10.0, May 2016, p. 62-67
Weber, E. “Postcards from Melbourne”, Frieze blog, October 10, 2015
Horak, O. “Benzinka”, exhibition catalog, 2014
Méchergui, M. “I Ate My Home”, Sitinsitu blog, June 16 2010
Lenanton, K. “Garden//Art//Action” Tête-à-Tête, Issue 5, February 1 2010, p. 5, 6,
Köver, K. “Graffiti für Heim”, Missy Magazine, Issue 03.09, August 31 2009, p. 67- 69

Selected Texts

Criddle, G. “Here’s What We Know”, Memo Review, 18th March 2023
Criddle, G. “Dear Sybil” MUMA’s queer reading series, 2021 (forthcoming)
Criddle, G. “A Lesson From the Playground” in Shapes of Knowledge, Monash University Museum of Art, 2019.
Criddle, G. “Observations”, in Here, an Excho (Sydney: 17th Sydney Biennale, 2016)
Criddle, G. “Changing sides” Janenne Eaton TCB artist Catalogue, 2017
Criddle, G. “Circle Around a Circle: Irigaray conversation”, un Magazine 9.1, 2015
Criddle, G. “Some Notes in [Lead up] Time”, Text for curatorial project ‘Restaging Restaging’ curated by Sarah Rodegari, Brian Fuata, Jess Olivieri at Alaska Projects, 2014
Criddle, G. “Between Curly Brackets” Catalogue essay for Agatha Gothe-Snape Untitled as part of the 8th Berlin Biennale, 2014
Criddle, G. “Wiggly World”, published by Liang Luscombe, Catalogue essay for “Non In Casa” 2013
Criddle, G. “MF” un Magazine 7.1, 2013

George Criddle, an index of

Studio Visit,
Living Museum of the West
2017

Project:(listen)

A steel and vinyl sculpture, a crack big enough to see the sky through, a reader, a text written by Georgina Criddle and designed by Paul Mylecharane, vertical blinds — a sculptural collaboration with Melissa Deerson. Bluestone Building, Melbourne’s Living Museum of the West.

Photography, Christian Capurro

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