Craig McCorquodale is an artist based in Glasgow, making work both for the theatre and public space. 

He thinks of his work as Social Sculpture: performance events that might challenge the perceptions we have of each other. How fragile, visceral, ineffable, accidental, unforeseen or seemingly impossible live moments can upend the tyranny of theatre and model new and vital ways of existing together. In this way, Craig’s practice exists as part of a canon of artists working internationally at the intersection of professional theatre-making and expanded social practice.

Craig invites all kinds of people into his work, and in recent years he has collaborated with children, policemen, ballroom dancers, football teams, builders, a 100 year-old, an embalmer and the Shaw and Compton Town Crier.

In 2024, Craig was awarded the inaugural Artist Takeover at Factory International in Manchester, beginning a new work at scale for 2027.

He has been Commissioned by Wunder der Prairie Festival in Mannheim, by Glasgow Life and Tramway. His touring work, 24 Things to Tell You, is a 24 hour durational artwork, where a different intervention occurs in public space each hour of the day – including all the way through the night. With actions happening in public space every hour, local people and businesses rally together to turn their locality into a living gallery.

At the invitation of Transform Festival and LIFT, in November 2025 Craig will undertake a one month residency at Kaserne in Basel. Craig is currently working with National Theatre of Scotland, Tramway, Attenborough Centre for the Creative Arts and Cifas, and has previously managed grants from Creative Scotland, British Council and Jerwood Arts, where in 2021 he was awarded the Live Work Fund and in 2023 the New Work Fund.