Sacha Craddock
(New Zealand, 1955)
Sacha Craddock is an art critic, writer and curator based in London.
Her commitment to contemporary art encompasses curating, organising, promotion, setting up structures, education, critical writing, and creating new networks designed to bring artists and audiences together.
Sacha is co-founder of ArtSchool Palestine, a member of the Abbey Council and co-founder of the Contemporary Art Prize at the British School in Rome, a trustee of the Shelagh Cluett Trust and president of AICA-UK, the UK section of the International Association of Art Critics. She was Chair of the Board of New Contemporaries and selection process from 1996 until December 2021. After completing a degree in fine art painting at Central Saint Martins and a postgraduate painting degree at Chelsea School of Art, Craddock began writing art criticism for The Guardian newspaper in 1988. Sacha has judged art prizes, including the Turner Prize in 1999 and the John Moores Painting Prize in 2008.
'Her critical writings include essays on Mark Boulos, Angus Fairhurst, José Dávila, Chantal Joffe, Wolfgang Tillmans, Rosa Lee, Alia Ahmad and Adam Henein, among others. She was a co-founder of Bloomberg Space and its curator from 2002 to 2011. Her curatorial contributions include Turner Prize Hull 2017, ‘Strike Site’ at Backlit Gallery, Nottingham 2018, ‘Here, Now’ at Misk Art Institute 2021, ‘Glossary’ for Curated by, Vienna 2023, and ‘Thought to Image’ for Albion Jeune 2024.
Craddock’s current curatorial projects include the commission of four exhibitions at Plataforma in Guadalajara, Mexico, between 2025 and 2026.