Artworks by series – Brenda L. Croft

Weerewa/Nungara (Lake George), after Lycett (for Augusta + Caroline) 17 May 1857, 2025-6

2026

Weereewa/Nungara (Lake George) Tree I (for Dorothy + Brenda) 17 May 1964, 2025 – 26

2026

Above them in the duststorm, an angel appeared

1998

Everyday we have to pray, on our knees in the dirt

1998

blood/memory: Brenda & Christopher II (Gurindji/Malngnin/Mudburra; Mara/Nandi/Njarrindjerri/Ritharrngu) 2022

2022

blood/memory: Brenda & Christopher I (Gurindji/Malngnin/Mudburra; Mara/Nandi/Njarrindjerri/Ritharrngu) 2022

2022

view another 4 artworks in the blood/type series

She never got used to the heat

1998

Don’t go Kissing at the Garden gate 2

1998

My mother recognized the man in the little boy

Don’t go kissing at the garden gate 1

Attractive to look at, a promising lad

licence to kill (licence to sell)

2000

view another 7 artworks in the fever series

view another 40 artworks in the In My Mother’s Garden series

Installation, mixed media: slide night moving image screen projection (80 slides 1959 – 1962) (edited with assistance of Robert Nugent); 1950s slide projector; lamp, bookshelf, footstools (made by Dorothy Croft, circa early 1962 -64); crocheted and knitted rugs (made by Dorothy Croft, circa 1992 – 2010); mid-20th century Parker lounge chairs; set of birds, set of ducks – ceramic wall ornaments, circa 1950s-60s; mid-20th century sideboard; assorted books, circa 1930s – 1970s; coasters, circa 1960s; glass cup and crocheted dust cover, circa 1960s; records – 45s, 78s, LPs

Made in Australia I

2018

Made in Australia II

2018-2026

32 artworks

Made in Australia II (2018) was produced by Brenda L. Croft to honour her mother Dorothy Jean Croft (1938–2010), a non-Indigenous woman who broke from suburban convention in Sydney and found love with a Gurindji/Malngin/Mudburra man, Joseph Croft, who she married and raised a family with, living in numerous regions of Australia, including Canberra.

Croft celebrates her mother’s story by scaling up her original 1950s-60s vividly coloured 35mm Cibachrome slides to giant size photographic prints that speak to the strength and potency of her parent’s relationship which played out quietly in this heart of the nation.

(text from CMAG)

Artworks

view another 4 artworks in the blood/type series

view another 7 artworks in the fever series

view another 40 artworks in the In My Mother’s Garden series

view another 24 artworks in the Made in Australia II series

view another 4 artworks in the Man about town series

view another 82 artworks in the Naabami (thou shall/will see): Barangaroo (army of me) series

view another 1 artworks in the She’ll Be Right Mate: Strangers in a strange land series

view another 61 artworks in the subalter/N/ative dreams series

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