| ARTIST BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCH: | Linda Craddock grew up in the small prairie town of Vegreville, AB, which was settled by immigrants at the turn of the 20th century. The town thrived after WWII and into the 1950s, and then collapsed both economically and socially when residents, including herself, left home for post-secondary education and employment in larger urban centres. Craddock moved to Calgary, where she received a Diploma in Textiles from the Alberta College of Art (now the Alberta College of Art and Design) (1974), and earned a Bachelor of Fine Arts in Drawing/Photography and a Master of Fine Arts in Photography from the University of Calgary (1982, 1988). The decline of Vegreville and other prairie towns as a result of industrialization and urbanization has become an important theme in her work, which mixes photographic and painting media to evoke change, memory, the passage of time, and movement through space.
Craddock has shown work internationally, nationally and throughout Alberta in solo and group exhibitions. Her work can be found in corporate and public collections including the Alberta Foundation for the Arts, the Art Gallery of Alberta, and the Canadian Museum of Contemporary Photography in Ottawa. Craddock has taught photography through the Calgary Board of Education, Red Deer College, and as a Sessional Instructor for both the Department of Art and Continuing Education at the University of Calgary. Since 2015, she has coordinated donations of art toward development of the Kiyooka Ohe Arts Centre in Calgary, and promoted emerging artists and arts education as Provincial Exhibitions Chair with the Alberta Society of Artists, of which she is also a member.
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