Sunday | 2pm - 3pm (BST)
Small Group Conversation | Age 16+
Artist Surgery - On Graduating
into the arts and culture sector
With Kate Craddock, Lydia Brickland and Hattie Eason
The Artist Surgeries are designed to offer a space for in-depth, open exchange with someone who has a specialism, lived experience, or interest in a particular topic, field or subject area. You are invited to bring along questions or ideas you want to explore in the session that relate to your own creative practice. Don’t be shy!
On Graduating with Kate Craddock, Lydia Brickland
and Hattie Eason
This session will offer a space for recent graduates to explore the transition from graduating into the arts and cultural sector.
Artist biographies
Kate Craddock
Kate is Founder and Festival Director of GIFT: Gateshead International Festival of Theatre, an annual artist-led festival celebrating contemporary theatre. Kate established GIFT in 2011 to provide a platform for international, contemporary, and experimental performance practices in North East England. When GIFT isn't taking place online, Kate works closely with BALTIC Centre for Contemporary Art and Gateshead Council to deliver GIFT each year.
As a theatre maker, Kate has presented her performance work at a range of organisations across the UK and in multiple international festival contexts. She is a Trustee for ARC, Stockton Arts Centre and The Paper Birds Theatre Company. Kate was recipient of the Theatre Fellowship with the Clore Cultural Leadership Programme 2018/19, and undertook a secondment with HOME in Manchester. Kate was part of the British Council and Arts Council GENERATE programme (2019/2020) and is currently working alongside consortium partners at Battersea Arts Centre, Dance4, Fierce Festival, MAYK and Transform to deliver the pilot of the new Arts Council commissioned England's Performing Arts Showcase for Edinburgh's Festivals.
Kate has combined working across academic roles and creative projects since 2005, and is currently a Research Associate in the School of English at Newcastle University. Prior to this role, Kate was a Senior Lecturer at Northumbria University, where she led on the industry focused MA Theatre and Performance programme. Kate completed her practice led PhD in 2010 with the title: ‘Collaboration in Performance Practice: Trust, Longevity and Challenging Proximity’ which focused on the potential for using readily available online technologies in creative collaborations.
@katecraddock