Sacha Craddock is a London-based writer, curator, teacher and critic. She is currently the curator for Sadlers Wells Arts Centre and co-curator for the Bloomberg Space as well as advisor for various galleries on their exhibition programs. As an art writer she has contributed to many books, writes articles and catalogue essays. She also gives public lectures and makes television appearances.
Craddock serves in many consultative and official capacities; she is the Chair of New Contemporaries, an annual selection-based exhibition which gives young artists the chance to show in a major gallery space; chair of Braziers International Workshop; co-founder of Artschool Palestine and Pubic Art Advisor for the Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea. Craddock has judged many prizes, including the Turner Prize in 1999 and The Jerwood Painting Prize in 2001. Craddock’s background is as a practitioner studying painting at St Martins and then Chelsea School of Art.