Linda Craddock

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Linda Craddock (aka Brock, Edgar, Green) (born 1952) is a Canadian visual artist living in Calgary, Alberta.{{cite web |title=Artist/Maker name "Craddock, Linda" |url=https://app.pch.gc.ca/application/aac-aic/artiste_detailler_bas-artist_detail_bas.app?rID=21710&fID=2&lang=en&qlang=en&pID=1&an=craddock%2C+linda&ps=50&sort=AM_ASC |website=www.app.pch.gc.ca |publisher=Government of Canada |accessdate=13 May 2019 |ref=Canada-1 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20191214123024/https://app.pch.gc.ca/application/aac-aic/artiste_detailler_bas-artist_detail_bas.app?rID=21710&fID=2&lang=en&qlang=en&pID=1&an=craddock%2C+linda&ps=50&sort=AM_ASC |archive-date=14 December 2019 |url-status=dead }} Her work has been featured in exhibitions since 1973.

Early life and education

Craddock was born and raised in Vegreville, Alberta.{{cite web |title=Craddock, Linda |url=https://bugeramathesongallery.com/artist/linda-craddock/ |website=www.bugeramathesongallery.com |publisher=Bugera Matheson Gallery |accessdate=12 May 2019 |ref=Bugera-1}} She attended Alberta College of Art + Design (1970-1974) and completed her BFA (1979-1981) and MFA (1986-1988) at the University of Calgary.{{cite web |title=Linda Craddock, MFA, ASA |url=http://albertasocietyofartists.com/linda-craddock/ |website=www.albetasocietyofartists.com |publisher=The Alberta Society of Artists |accessdate=12 May 2019 |ref=ASA-1}} In 1987 the National Gallery of Canada purchased a series of six of Craddock’s photographs to add to the Canadian Photography Institute's collection.{{cite web |title=Linda Craddock |url=https://www.gallery.ca/collection/artist/linda-craddock |website=www.gallery.ca |publisher=National Gallery of Canada |accessdate=11 May 2019 |ref=Gallery-1}}

Career

In 1988 Craddock moved to Vancouver Island where she resided with her family and worked at a post secondary photography school in Victoria. In 1997 she moved to one of the Gulf Islands and employed the location’s remoteness to reflect upon her art. Craddock (then working under the name Linda Brock) found that the island's remoteness promoted contemplation of her prior life, living in the Prairies, enabling her to "go back to other times and places with ease and grace." Her exhibition Awaiting Memories (2003) was vastly inspired by these reflections on her personal life. After six years of living on Pender Island, Craddock returned to Calgary, becoming involved with the Calgary Board of Education and teaching photography at the University of Calgary.

In the series of paintings for the exhibition Hometown Dreams: Memory and Change, Craddock examined the elusiveness of experience, memory and time. In Hometown Dreams she explored her relationship with the community of rural Alberta.{{cite web |title=Linda Craddock: Hometown Dreams |url=http://www.leightoncentre.org/exhibitions/exhibit/hometown-dreams-229 |website=www.leightoncentre.org |publisher=Leighton Art Centre |accessdate=13 May 2019 |ref=Leighton-2}} Craddock states, " None of us live [sic]exclusively in the present. What we understand as being 'now' is in fact an amalgamation of personal and collective experiences interactive with a current framework of existence. This defines who we are..."

A source of inspiration for the exhibition Levitas, was Banff National Park, where Craddock created a series of paintings centered on the sensation of levitation that she describes as a experience that exists in our dream state, "A desire to be 'free' or to transcend the bounds of gravity also results in our spiritual aspirations and changes the shape of our memories."

Craddock's work has been exhibited nationally in Ontario, Quebec, British Columbia, Alberta and Saskatchewan as well as being a part of a touring exhibition with the Canadian Museum of Contemporary Photography, titled Portraits of Women in 1990. Her work is included in the collections of the Canadian Museum of Contemporary Photography, Ottawa, ON;{{cite web |title=Contemporary Art - Linda Craddock |url=http://mastersgalleryltd.com/artists/linda-craddock |website=www.mastersgalleryltd.com |publisher=Masters Gallery Ltd. |accessdate=12 May 2019 |ref=Masters-1}} the Art Gallery of Alberta, Edmonton, AB;{{cite web |title=Linda Craddock: Works by this artist |url=https://www.youraga.ca/bio/linda-craddock |website=www.youraga.ca |publisher=Art Gallery of Alberta |accessdate=13 May 2019 |ref=ASA}} and the Alberta Foundation for the Arts, AB.

Bibliography

Linda Craddock’s Levitations by Portia Priegert, Galleries West Magazine. Feb. (2018){{cite web |last1=Priegert |first1=Portia |title=Linda Craddock's Levitations |url=http://www.gallerieswest.ca/magazine/stories/linda-craddock-s-levitations/ |website=www.gallerieswest.ca |date=27 February 2018 |publisher=GalleriesWest |accessdate=12 May 2019 |ref=Priegert-1}}
Bridges: 85th Anniversary of the Alberta Society of Artists (2016){{cite web |title=Alberta Society of Artists: Bridges |url=http://www.leightoncentre.org/exhibitions/exhibit/alberta-society-of-artists-85th-anniversary-celebration-256 |website=www.leightoncentre.org |publisher=Leighton Art Centre |accessdate=12 May 2019 |ref=Leighton-1}}
Hometown Dreams Featured Artist, Mud Season Review, Issue #2 Oct 20 (online periodical) (2014){{cite journal |title=Featured artist: Linda Craddock |journal=Mud Season Review |date=20 October 2014 |issue=2 |url=http://mudseasonreview.com/2014/10/art-issue-2/ |accessdate=12 May 2019 |ref=MudSeason-1}}
From Calgary to Krakow Fast Forward Weekly Volume 14, No. 29 Calgary, Alberta (2009)
Images and Reflections, The Artists Circle of Calgary, Triangle Gallery of Visual Arts Catalogue (2008){{cite book |last1=Guerreno |first1=Marcela |last2=Barber |first2=Rhonda |last3=Larc |first3=Thomas |last4=Malec |first4=Jacek |last5=Rae |first5=Michael |last6=Triangle Gallery |last7=Artists' Circle of Calgary |authorlink2=Barber |title=Images and reflections: the Artist' Circle of Calgary |date=2008 |publisher=Triangle Gallery of Visual Arts |pages=1–47 |oclc=850285329 |url=https://www.worldcat.org/title/images-and-reflections-refleksje-w-obrazach-the-artists-circle-of-calgary-krag-artystow-z-calgary/oclc/850285329&referer=brief_results#details-allauthors |accessdate=12 May 2019 |ref=WorldCat-1 |format=Catalogue}}
Photo Cover, The Malahat Review, edited by John Barton, University of Victoria. Issue 167/ June (2009){{cite journal |title=Cover Art: Linda Craddock, Summer Sunset Sky |journal=The Malahat Review |date=Summer 2009 |issue=167 |page=Cover |url=http://www.malahatreview.ca/issues/167.html |accessdate=12 May 2019 |ref=Malahat-1}}
Road to Success Alternative Trends Volume 2 Issue 3, Spring (2007)
Artist Portraits Galleries West. Vol. 2 No. 2 Summer (2003){{cite journal |last1=Heth |first1=Shannon |last2= Karlinsky |first2=Amy |last3=Van Sluys |first3= Shawn |last4= Cramp |first4=Beverly |last5= MacPherson |first5= Colleen |last6=Chapman |first6=Rod |last7=MacLeod |first7=Jennifer |title=Artist Portraits |journal=Galleries West |date=2003 |volume=2 (Summer) |issue=2 |page=38 |url=https://issuu.com/gallerieswest/docs/summer2003/ |accessdate=13 May 2019 |ref=Heth-1}}
The Pacific Northwest Landscape, by Kitty Harmon, Sasquatch Books, Seattle, USA.(Book) (2001){{cite book |last1=Harmon |first1=Kitty |last2=Raban |first2=Jonathan |title=The Pacific Northwest Landscape: A Painted History |date=2001 |publisher=Sasquatch Books |isbn=1570612846 |pages=1–144 |url=http://webcat1.library.ubc.ca/vwebv/holdingsInfo?bibId=2614228 |accessdate=12 May 2019 |ref=Harmon-1}}
Mrs.Pidruchney ACUA Vitae: Ukrainian Council for Alberta Arts, Vol 2, No. 4. Dec (as author) (1992)
Portraits of Women, The Canadian Museum of Contemporary Photography, Ottawa, ON (1990)
Alternate Visions, by Christopher Jackson, Curator, Glenbow Museum, Calgary, AB (1989){{cite book |last1=Jackson |first1=Christopher |title=Alternate visions: eight Alberta photographers |date=1989 |publisher=Glenbow Museum |isbn=0919224903 |edition=catalogue |url=http://library.avemaria.edu/title/alternate-visions-eight-alberta-photographers-september-16-november-26-1989-glenbow-museum/oclc/062911137 |accessdate=12 May 2019 |ref=WorldCat-2}}
Women Photographers on Women’s Issues by Brenda Pelkey. BlackFlash Spring Vol.6 No.1 (1988)
Four From Calgary Update, Edmonton Art Gallery, Vol 6 No. 6. Nov/Dec (1981)
Ukrainian Canadiana Ukrainian Women’s Association of Canada pp 76. (Book) (1981)