Brenda L. Croft

Boomalli Aboriginal Artists Co-operative

This interview took place in a back room of the Boomalli Aboriginal Artists Co op, Abercrombie St, Sydney, on the 10th February, 1995, surrounded by easels and half-complete works of art, the paint smell bringing back all the fond memories of working with paint. The first time I visited Boomalli was to choose a work for the cover of a forthcoming book on Aboriginal history. Hetti told me this was the room the artist, Harry Wedge, used for a studio. Hetti, who I had first met as an undergraduate student at the University of New South Wales some years ago, was now about a month off having her third child. I had not met Brenda before, but had heard of her as a key figure in the NSW art world.