Brenda L Croft b. 1964

  • Artist ,
  • Artist (Photographer),
  • Curator
Brenda L Croft has had dual careers as both a photographer and curator. She was one of the founders of Boomalli in Redfern, and first came to prominence in the 1992 Biennale of Sydney. As a curator she was responsible for Beyond the Pale at the Adelaide Biennial in 2000 and Culture Warriors, the first Aboriginal art Triennial in 2007. Her photography is concerned with family, land and people.
exhibited at
Know My Name: Australian Women Artists 1900 to now Part 1
Date
14 November 2020 - 4 July 2021
Place
National Gallery of Australia, Canberra, ACT
Description

Know My Name is an exhibition in two parts at the National Gallery of Australia. It is the largest and most comprehensive exhibition of work by women, presented in a thematic rather than chronological form. It reveals relationships between the present and the past, relationships between artists, and common concerns.

Tags
Women artists, Feminism, Modernism, Indigenous, Painting, Video art, Multimedia, Photo-based art-work, Sculpture, Embroidery
Website
https://knowmyname.nga.gov.au/events/australian-women-artists-1900-now/
exhibited at
A Widening Gap: The Intervention, 10 Years On
Date
8 July 2017 - 5 August 2017
Place
The Cross Art Projects, 8 Llankelly Place, Kings Cross, Sydney, 2011, Australia
Description

A Widening Gap: The Intervention, 10 Years On witnesses a world that is remote from the essential services that the rest of Australia takes for granted. The tenth anniversary of the introduction of “the Intervention” — the Northern Territory National Emergency Response — has come and gone.

Type
Exhibition
Tags
The Cross Art Projects
Website
http://crossart.com.au/archive/111-2017-exhibitions-projects/323-a-widening-gap-the-intervention-10-years-on
exhibited at
Half Light: Portraits from Black Australia
Date
2008
Place
Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, NSW
Description
Type
Exhibition
Website
http://www.artgallery.nsw.gov.au/exhibitions/archived/2009/half_light
exhibited at
Brilliance: a world of shimmer, rarrk and glitter
Date
2007
Place
Aboriginal Art Museum, Utrecht, The Netherlands
Description
Type
Exhibition
exhibited at
Peripheral Vision
Date
2005
Place
Artplace, Perth, WA
Description

2006, Niagara Galleries, Melbourne

Type
Exhibition
exhibited at
Witness
Date
2004
Place
Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney, NSW
Description
Type
Exhibition
Website
http://www.mca.com.au
exhibited at
Man About Town
Date
2003
Place
Stills Gallery, Sydney, NSW
Description

2004, Niagara Galleries, Melbourne

Type
Exhibition
exhibited at
Terra/Terror Australis
Date
2002
Place
Stills Gallery, Sydney, NSW
Description

Satellite exhibition for Biennale of Sydney

Type
Exhibition
exhibited at
Fever (you give me)
Date
2000
Place
Stills Gallery, Sydney, NSW
Description
Type
Exhibition
participated in
1999 National Indigenous School in New Media Art
Date
3 July 1999 - 24 July 1999
Description

The inaugural school designed specifically for Indigenous artists took place from 3 – 24 July, 1999 at Northern Territory University in Darwin …

Type
Other event
Website
http://scanlines.net/node/4943
exhibited at
Brenda Croft: in my mother's garden
Date
1999
Place
John Curtin Gallery, Curtin University, Perth, WA
Description

Source: Solo Survey Exhibition Linkage Project, Tasmanian School of Art, UTAS
Curtin Gallery exhibition archive

Type
Exhibition
Tags
Major Solo, Photography
exhibited at
In My Father's House
Date
1998
Place
Australian Centre for Photography, Sydney, NSW
Description
Type
Exhibition
exhibited at
In My Mother's Garden
Date
1998
Place
Gallery Gabrielle Pizzi, Melbourne, VIC
Description
Type
Exhibition
exhibited at
Re-take: contemporary aboriginal & torres strait islander photography
Date
1998 - 1999
Place
National Gallery of Australia, Canberra, ACT
Description

Then toured to: Monash University Gallery, Melbourne Vic, July – August 1999 Plimsoll Gallery, University of Tasmania, Hobart Tas,September – October 1999 University of South Australia Art Museum, Adelaide SA,November – December 1999 Mornington Peninsula Regional Gallery, Mornington Vic,February – April 2000 Art Gallery of Western Australia, Perth WA, June-August 2000

Type
Exhibition
Website
http://nga.gov.au/Retake/Retake.htm
exhibited at
Abstracts: New Aboriginalities
Date
1996
Place
Watershed Bristol, England
Description

plus regional English tour

Type
Exhibition
exhibited at
Review
Date
8 March 1995 - 8 June 1995
Place
Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, NSW
Description

Speaking of Women, four guest lectures; by Nancy Underhill, Ann Thomson, Margo Neale, Joan Kerr; held over successive Fridays, 10-31 March 1995, by the Art Gallery Society.

Type
Exhibition
Tags
National Women's Art Exhibition
exhibited at
Strange Fruit
Date
1994
Place
Performance Space, Sydney, NSW
Description
Type
Exhibition
exhibited at
The Big Deal Is Black
Date
1993
Place
Australian Centre for Photography, Sydney, NSW
Description
Type
Exhibition