Brenda L Croft is from the Gurindji/Malngin/Mudburra peoples from the Victoria River region of the Northern Territory of Australia, and Anglo-Australian/Chinese/German/Irish/Scottish heritage.

Since the mid-1980s she has been at the forefront of the Australian and international First Nations and broader contemporary arts/cultural sectors as a multi-disciplinary creative practitioner – artist, curator, educator and researcher.

Her creative-led research encompasses critical performative First Nations Autoethnography, First Nations Storywork and historiography, framed within multi-modal methodologies and theories. Since 2018 Brenda has been based at the Australian National University, Canberra, Australia, where she is Professor of Indigenous Art History & Curatorship, and leading an ANU Indigenous Health & Wellbeing Grand Challenge project ‘Murrudha: Sovereign Walks – tracking cultural actions through art, Country, language and music’.

In 2024 Brenda will be the Gough Whitlam & Malcolm Fraser Visiting Chair of Australian Studies at Harvard University. During this period she will be teaching in the Faculty of Arts & Sciences, Departments of History of Art & Architecture, and Art, Film & Visual Studies; and also working on numerous research projects.

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