Brenda L Croft ‘after/image’

after/image presents new work from artist/curator Brenda L Croft. Working with sites in the Goulburn Mulwaree region that connect directly to her family history, Croft offers a story of connection, distance, memory and loss.

Croft is an artist from the Gurindji/Malngin/Mudburra Peoples from the Victoria River region of the Northern Territory, having Anglo-Australian/British/Chinese/German/Irish/Scottish heritage. Her practice has, for over four decades, explored the intersections of family/community, place, re/memorying and contested histories.

after/image will extend Croft's ongoing practice of researching and honouring her matrilineal heritage, in particular her great-great grandmother Caroline Stephenson (and her family) with whom she shares a birthday (17 May 1857/1964), who lived and worked in the broader Goulburn region during the mid to late 19th century.

after/image is an immersive exhibition experience featuring the Collodion tintype photographic process as well as a large-scale audio-visual installation. These new works will document sites of personal and historic significance tracing her maternal family's connections. The works trace the Coach and Horses Inn, St Saviour's Cemetery and the northeast corner of Weereewa/Lake George, a historic site of atrocities, fantasies and reflection over thousands of years.