Brenda L Croft (1964– ) is an Australian artist, curator and academic whose First Nations cultural heritage is with the Gurindji/Malngin/Mudburra peoples of the Victoria River region in the Northern Territory. Croft also has Anglo-Australian, German, Irish and Chinese heritage. She completed a Doctor of Philosophy at the University of New South Wales in 2021 and received an Honorary Doctorate (Visual Arts) at the University of Sydney in 2009. Croft has been involved with First Nations cultural advocacy and social issues since the 1980s, and since then has also made a significant contribution to the Australian First Nations and broader contemporary arts and cultural sectors as a multi-disciplinary creative practitioner. Her works incorporate personal and public archives, addressing key issues such as cultural reclamation, identity and representation. Croft has exhibited widely, and is represented in major public and private collections in Australia and overseas.
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