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.
Dear Grower / Where’s ya mother was part of the Working at Heights exhibition series programmed by Tim Woodward in September 2022. The exhibition included a video installation ‘Where’s ya mother’ of my parents walking through a radiata pine plantation they bought in the 80s. The installation ‘Dear Grower’ is a large plasticine text work on an old disregarded corporate-looking carpet that reimagines a legal document my parents received about the liquidation of the pine plantation company. Collectively, the two works consider the space between parenting, industry a land use.
[6.2] Where’s ya mother? Installation view, dimensions variable, 2022. Image by Christian Capurro
[6.4] Dear Grower, plasticine, second hand carpet left in studio, 3D printed pine cones, 303 x 330 cm, 2022.
Image by Christian Capurro