Brenda L Croft is from the Gurindji/Malngin/Mudburra peoples from the Victoria River region of the Northern Territory of Australia, and Anglo-Australian/German/Irish/Chinese heritage. She has been involved in the Australian First Nations and broader contemporary arts and cultural sectors as an artist, arts administrator, consultant, curator, educator and researcher since the mid-1980s.

Brenda lives and works in Canberra on Ngambri/Ngunawal/Ngunnawal country where she is Associate Professor, Indigenous Art History and Curatorship at the Centre for Art History and Art Theory, School of Art and Design, College of Arts & Social Sciences, Australian National University.

Brenda’s transdisciplinary creative practice encompasses critical performative First Nations autoethnography, Indigenous Storying/Storywork and historiography, cultural reclamation, identity and representation. She melds personal and public archives throughout her creative practice, which is represented in major public and private collections in Australia and overseas. 

Brenda’s practice-led doctoral research project Kurrwa (stone axe) to Kartak (tin cup, pannikin) included the collaborative exhibition Still in my mind: Gurindji location, experience and visuality. Conducted through UNSW Art + Design Australia, this multimodal project was grounded in collaboration and continuing close consultation with patrilineal family and community members.

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