Biography

Lisa Cradduck is a printmaker, and sculptor whose labour-intensive mark-making and experimental techniques address the sick and dead body, moral panics, class struggle, and occult agency. Her work is political, class-conscious, and steeped in the darkest humour. Her research interests include print culture, 15th-century block books, witch pamphlets, and 17th-century anatomical waxes.

Cradduck is a founder member and director of ‘Mutton Fist Press’, an autonomous, co-operative printmaking studio and exhibition space in Archway, London that hosts art, music, and literary events. Mutton Fist runs a residency programme and promotes social printmaking through its weekly print evening “Spud Club”.

Work Lisa produced on residency at The Venice Printmaking Studio (Murano, Italy), was selected for inclusion in The Venice Biennale of Large Format Printmaking. She has also exhibited at The Horse Hospital (UK), The Communist Gallery (UK), Five Years (UK), the Ghetto Biennale (Haiti), and CRETA Rome (Italy). Lisa was born in Wembley, London in 1980, and is a Fine Art graduate from Sheffield Hallam University and Chelsea School of Art. She lives and works and rots in North London.