Jae Criddle
Image source Paul Barbera
Jae Criddle is an Australian emerging painter and sculptor. Jae is interested in intuitive approaches to art making, working mostly with oil, acrylic, monoprint, collage, plaster and clay.
Inventing off-kilter compositions and objects, she embraces loose and crooked shapes. By letting the materials, textures, layers and colour take the lead, this materiality becomes the primary subject. The recurring symbolism and background themes are almost always connected to landscape and place, considering internal and external territories and trying to capture the intangible.
Being self taught, with a background in design, this has undoubtedly influenced her process and some of the figurative and abstract elements of her visual language.
“I make naive, usually figurative work and like getting caught up in distortion or exaggeration.
My illustration and mural work is different to my painting or sculpture work, they are quite separate practices for me. I feel differently about them and approach them differently. My illustration work is pared back and playful. I focus on expression and am attracted to settings that are a little jarring or uncanny. With all of my artwork I try to achieve a particular mood or atmosphere and I like loose and spontaneous mark-making.” Jae Criddle
