In 2019, Dr. George Criddle was artist in residence at Geraldton Projects where they held an experimental writing workshop and hosted a generative yarn with Bardi artist and storyteller Ron Bradfield on the significance of family history. After two years of border closures and lockdowns, Criddle returns to the Mid-West to develop a new body of work for an upcoming exhibition ‘The Family Plot’ to open next year at the Geraldton Regional Art Gallery with fellow Melbournian artist megan evans.
As part of the exhibition development and as a way to share their PhD research, George Criddle will discuss their experimental text Summaries of a Settler Artist’s Journal: Letters to Elizabeth Criddle et.al.; a work that finds ways to engage with silenced colonial histories. The artist talk will be followed by a short workshop where you are invited to consider a series of questions about how settler family histories relate to the larger project of truth-telling about our nation's settler-colonial past. Please bring your family history book if you have one to discuss. Tea and refreshments will be provided.
Dr. George Criddle is an Australian artist and writer with early settler heritage in Geraldton. They currently live and work in Naarm, on the unceeded lands of the Kulin Nations. Criddle lectures at the Victorian College of the Arts Melbourne University and Monash University , and Monash University. They have exhibited artwork in Australia and internationally and currently sit on the board of Kings Artist-Run Gallery in Narrm, Melbourne. If you have any questions or queries about the artist talk or workshop please contact Criddle at george.criddle@unimelb.edu.au
Eventbrite bookings: George Criddle: artist talk and workshop on Settler Family History
Wednesday 6th July 2022, 9:30am - 12:00pm: Greenough Museum and Gardens
Sunday 10th July 2022, 10:30am - 1:00pm: Geraldton Regional Art Gallery
Monday 11th July 2022, 9:30am - 12:00pm: Geraldton Regional Library