Title
Sue Ingram, Botany Road/Regent Street, Redfern
1992
Artist
Brenda L Croft
Australia
1964 –
Language groups: Gurindji, Fitzmaurice region, Mudburra, Fitzmaurice region, Malngin, Fitzmaurice region
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Details
- Date
- 1992
- Media category
- Photograph
- Materials used
- duratran
- Edition
- 1/3
- Dimensions
- 182.8 x 275.0 cm frame
- Signature & date
Not signed. Not dated.
- Credit
- Gift of Brenda L Croft 2000
- Location
- Not on display
- Accession number
- 166.2000.1
- Copyright
- © Brenda L Croft/Copyright Agency
- Artist information
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Brenda L Croft
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About
These images were originally part of a collaborative installation work, titled 'Conference call', made with renowned African-American conceptual artist Adrian Piper, for 'The boundary rider: 9th Biennale of Sydney', Art Gallery of NSW, 1992. In the Biennale, the images were displayed in a darkened room furnished with office chairs where people were encouraged to sit and answer incessantly ringing telephones. On the 'phones, listeners heard someone talking in an unidentified Aboriginal language followed by a translation in English.
Croft took these photos at key sites around Redfern and presents images of Aboriginal people, with a diversity of experiences and backgrounds, standing proudly within their urban environment. Contrary to the usual media depictions of Redfern's Aboriginal community, Croft presents a positive image from an insider's viewpoint. Included in these images are significant individuals who have worked tirelessly for their people, some of whom have since passed away and are thus memorialised in the images. -
Exhibition history
Shown in 2 exhibitions
Half light: portraits from black Australia, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, 21 Nov 2008–22 Feb 2009
20th-Century galleries, lower level 1 (rehang), Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, 20 Aug 2022–2023
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Bibliography
Referenced in 1 publication
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Hetti Perkins and Jonathan Jones (Editors), Half light: Portraits from black Australia, 'Brenda L Croft', pg. 56-63, Sydney, 2008, 60 (colour illus.).
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