page_title: Brenda L Croft
section_title: Curatorial and other work
hierarchical_section_title: Brenda L Croft / Curatorial and other work
caption_attribution_description: English: Sculpture by Brenda L.Croft set into pavement in Royal Botanic Garden, Sydney
context_page_description: Brenda L Croft is an Aboriginal Australian artist, curator, writer, and educator working across contemporary Indigenous and mainstream arts and cultural sectors. Croft was a founding member of the Boomalli Aboriginal Artists Cooperative in 1987.
context_section_description: Croft was a founding member of the Boomalli Aboriginal Artists Cooperative in 1987.
  Croft has worked as an arts administrator and curator at local, regional, state, federal and international levels since 1990. From 1999 to 2001 she was curator of Indigenous art at the Art Gallery of Western Australia; from 2002 to 2009 she was senior curator of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander art at the National Gallery of Australia.
  Curatorial projects include Beyond the pale: contemporary Indigenous art, Adelaide Biennial of Australian Art for the 2000 Adelaide Festival of Arts; Culture Warriors (National Indigenous Art Triennial), National Gallery of Australia; Stop(the)gap: international Indigenous art in motion for the 2011 Adelaide International Film Festival; A Change is Gonna Come: 50th anniversary of the 1967 Referendum (Aboriginals) and 25th anniversary of the Mabo Decision, National Museum of Australia, 2017.
  Her practice-led doctoral research project included the collaborative exhibition, Still in my mind: Gurindji location, experience and visuality, UNSW Galleries, UQ Art Museum, 2017, touring nationally until late 2021. Solo exhibitions include heart-in-hand, Canberra Contemporary Art Space, 2018; subalter/N/ative dreams, Stills Gallery, Sydney; Peripheral vision, Artplace, Perth (2005), Niagara Galleries, Melbourne (2006); Man about town, Stills Gallery, Sydney, (2003), Niagara Galleries, Melbourne (2004); fever (you give me), Stills Gallery, Sydney (2000); In my mother's garden, Gallery Gabrielle Pizzi, Melbourne (1998); In My Father's House, Australian Centre for Photography, Paddington, (1998).
  Croft has also worked with Eastern Arrernte/Kalkadoon independent curator, arts administrator and writer, Hetti Perkins, on curatorial projects, including the Australian Indigenous Art Commission for the Musée du quai Branly, Paris, France, (2006); and the Australian exhibition at the 47th Venice Biennale in 1997, fluent: Emily Kame Kngwarreye, Yvonne Koolmatrie & Judy Watson, and was co-curated by Hetti Perkins, Croft and Victoria Lynn. It was commissioned by Michael Lynch (CBE, AM).
caption: Croft's installation honouring the original Yura clans, titled Wuganmagulya (Farm Cove), Sydney, 2000.[5]
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