Brenda L Croft

Brenda L Croft is an Australian artist, photographer, curator, lecturer and freelance writer working in Indigenous and contemporary arts and cultural sectors.[1][2] Croft was born in 1964 in Perth, and is from the Gurindji/Malngin/Mudpurra people and has Anglo-Australian/German/Irish/Chinese heritage.[3][4] Croft was a founding members of the Boomalli Aboriginal Artists Cooperative.[2]

Education and academic work

Croft was awarded a Bachelor of Fine Arts (Photography) from Sydney College of Arts, University of Sydney in 1985 and a Master of Art Administration at the College of Fine Arts, University of New South Wales, Sydney in 1995.[3][5] In 2018 Croft was appointed as Associate Professor Indigenous Art History and Curatorship at the Australian National Univerity.[6]

Curatorial work

The Australian exhibition at the 47th Venice Biennale in 1997 was titled fluent: Emily Kame Kngwarreye, Yvonne Koolmatrie & Judy Watson, and was co-curated by Hetti Perkins, Brenda L Croft and Victoria Lynn. It was commissioned by Michael Lynch (CBE, AM) and the exhibition focused on the work of Aboriginal artists to commemorate the 30th anniversary of the 1967 Referendum.[7]

Brenda L Croft's installation honouring the original Yura clans of the site titled Wuganmagulya (Farm Cove), 2000.[8]

Awards

In 1996 Croft was the first Australian to receive the Chicago Artists International Program grant and she also was awarded the 1998 Indigenous Arts Fellowship from the NSW Ministry for the Arts.[2][9] Croft was awarded an honorary PhD from the University of Sydney in 2009.[10]

Croft was named Visual Artist of Year in the Deadly Awards 2013, which were the annual awards recognising Australian Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander achievement.[11]

Artwork and exhibitions

Artwork by Croft has been exhibited in galleries across Australia as well as in the Netherlands and England.[12] Her work has been collected by the National Gallery of Australia,[3] the Art Gallery of New South Wales,[1] the Art Gallery of West Australia,[13] the National Gallery of Victoria[14] and the National Portrait Gallery.[2] Her work titled Wuganmagulya (Farm Cove) was installed in 2000 in a pathway in the Sydney Sculpture Walk program.[9]

References

  1. 1 2 "Brenda L Croft :: Art Gallery NSW". www.artgallery.nsw.gov.au. Retrieved 2018-08-31.
  2. 1 2 3 4 "Brenda L. Croft, National Portrait Gallery". www.portrait.gov.au. Retrieved 2018-08-31.
  3. 1 2 3 "- Brenda L. CROFT". nga.gov.au. Retrieved 2018-08-31.
  4. ↑ "Brenda L Croft: Heart-In-Hand". BMA Magazine. 2018-07-18. Retrieved 2018-08-31.
  5. ↑ Allas, Tess (2009). "Brenda L Croft b. 1964". Design and Art Australia Online. Retrieved 31 August 2018.
  6. ↑ "SOA&D and CAHAT welcomes Brenda L Croft". 28 February 2018. Retrieved 31 August 2018.
  7. ↑ "Venice Biennale Timeline | Australia Council". www.australiacouncil.gov.au. Retrieved 2018-08-31.
  8. ↑ Design, UBC Web. "Wuganmagulya (Farm Cove) | Monument Australia". monumentaustralia.org.au. Retrieved 2018-08-31.
  9. 1 2 "Wuganmgulya (Farm Cove) - City Art Sydney". City Art Sydney. Retrieved 2018-08-31.
  10. ↑ Services, Archives and Records Management. "Honorary awards - ARMS - The University of Sydney". sydney.edu.au. Retrieved 2018-08-31.
  11. ↑ Vincent, Peter (11 September 2013). "'Inspirational' O'Shane honoured at Deadlys". The Sydney Morning Herald. p. 6.
  12. ↑ "Brenda L Croft Exhibitions". Design & Art Australia Online. Retrieved 31 August 2018.
  13. ↑ Australia, The Art Gallery of Western. "The Art Gallery of Western Australia Website". www.artgallery.wa.gov.au. Retrieved 2018-08-31.
  14. ↑ "Brenda L. Croft | Artists | NGV". www.ngv.vic.gov.au. Retrieved 2018-08-31.
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