Brenda L Croft – News
RECENT ACQUISITION
Stills is delighted to announce the recent acquisition of Brenda L Croft works full/blood, half-blood, mixed-BLOOD and BRILLIANT clever scholar ward (all 2016) by the City of Sydney
Image: © Brenda L Croft
BRENDA L CROFT in RIGHTFULLY OURS, RIGHTFULLY YOURS: VISUALISING INDIGENOUS HUMAN RIGHT’
8 December – 21 January 2017
Perth Centre for Photography, WA
This exhibition interrogates assertions of, and infringements upon Indigenous peoples’ human rights (historically and in the here and now) through the presentation of powerful imagery and creative practice, emergent of Indigenous Australian peoples and communities.
Image: © Brenda L Croft
BRENDA L CROFT in RESOLUTION: NEW INDIGENOUS PHOTOMEDIA
An NGA travelling exhibition
16 September – 4 December 2016
Tweed Regional Gallery, NSW
This exhibition creates an experience of photomedia and Indigeneity that is physical, embodied and thought-provoking.
Image: © Brenda L Croft
BRENDA L CROFT in OVER THE FENCE
6 August – 30 October 2016
UQ Art Museum, QLD
Over the fence features the work of 18 Indigenous artists engaged in the field of photography. Indigenous art is often political, and these artists address various contentious issues, including identity, representation, racism, religious influence and the exploitation of land. The artworks in Over the fence are drawn from the private collection of art patron and philanthropist Patrick Corrigan AM, a long-time supporter of contemporary Australian art.
Image: © Brenda L Croft
RECENT ACQUISITIONS
Stills is delighted to announce the recent acquisition of Brenda L Croft works full/blood, quarter/caste, octaroon and Native (all 2016) by the National Gallery of Australia.
Image: © Brenda L Croft
BRENDA L CROFT in ‘LOVE… MORE THAN A FOUR LETTER WORD’
18 May – 9 July 2016
Caboolture Regional Art Gallery
This exhibition examines the complex feelings, states and attitudes we know as love and attempts to uncover the complete extent of human emotion.
Image: © Brenda L Croft
FELLOWSHIP RECIPIENT EIGHTH NATIONAL INDIGENOUS ART AWARDS
Stills is delighted to congratulate renowned artist, curator and scholar Brenda L Croft on receiving the Australia Council Fellowship grant which recognises outstanding contribution to the arts and enable the artist to undertake a major creative project.
Image: © Brenda L Croft
BRENDA L CROFT in BAD ABORIGINAL PHOTOGRAPHY
18 March – 30 June 2014
Koorie Heritage Trust Inc., VIC
'Bad Aboriginal Photography' is a Monash Gallery of Art exhibition of mischievous and humorous works by three Indigenous Australian artists: Brenda L Croft, Destiny Deacon and Tracey Moffatt. As well as being bad or naughty in attitudes, these artists also embrace the badness of low-quality photography.
Image: © Brenda L Croft
‘BRENDA L CROFT’
6 April – 8 September 2013
Art Gallery of New South Wales, NSW
A survey of the work of Brenda L Croft is on display at the Art Gallery of New South Wales for the gallery winter season. Brenda is a Gurindji/Malngin/Mudpurra artist who works closely with her family, friends and Indigenous community members to create her images. Her works are often biographical and are drawn from her experience of growing up in the suburbs with a white mother and an Aboriginal father who was taken from his family at less than two years of age under the government policy that allowed the removal of Aboriginal children from their parents.
Croft’s works explore issues faced by many Aboriginal people today, including the ongoing effects of the ‘Stolen Generations’, preconceptions of who is actually of Aboriginal heritage and what an Aboriginal person is supposed to look like in contemporary Australian society. Her works serve to present a realistic portrayal of contemporary Aboriginal life – a positive image from an insider’s viewpoint.
Join Brenda for a panel discussion with the subjects of her photographs as part of NAIDOC week, Wednesday 10 July, 6:30 – 7:00pm, Central Court, Art Gallery of NSW. Brenda will also give a 30 minute paper for Modernist bodies: annual photography symposium on Saturday 27 July, Domain Theatre, Art Gallery of NSW.
Image: © Brenda L Croft
BITE ME: CROFT & RILEY
Flinders University Art Museum
Adelaide
8 May - 19 July 2009
Being held as part of Reconciliation Week, this exhibition featuring recent
additions to the Flinders University Art Museum Collection includes works by
Brenda L Croft and Michael Riley. Other artists included in the show are
Jonathan Jones, Destiny Deacon and Leah King Smith.
Image: © Brenda L Croft
THERE GOES THE NEIGHBOURHOOD
Performance Space
Carriage Works, Sydney
23 May - 27 June 2009
Opening Friday 22 May 6pm
Brenda L Croft is a featured artist in There Goes the Neighbourhood, an
exhibition exploring the effects of gentrification in urban spaces with a
particular focus on the immediate surrounding area of Redfern. The exhibition
is accompanied by a book and active public program, seeking to engage a broad
community in debate and dialogue regarding the politics of space.
Image: © Brenda L Croft