Derek Kreckler (Sydney, 1952) Derek Kreckler is an Australian visual artist and educator. He has taught at various Australian art schools, including Sydney College of the Arts, the Western Australian Academy of Performing Arts, UNSW College of Fine Arts, and the University of Wollongong. “Kreckler’s works span performance, film, photography, installation, and video. He has regularly created tough, insistent imagery that has been at the critical edge of Australian art history and has provided commentary on our country’s past, present, and future. Kreckler has an ongoing preoccupation with themes of Indigenous/settler relations, the formation of nationalism, and their environmental consequences. His work is often described as ‘unsettling.’ Whether relishing the risk of experimentation and chance, or purposefully challenging our perceptions of country, identity, and self, Kreckler’s work flirts with an uncertainty that can prickle the neck while opening our eyes to the magic of how images are made and the wonder of how powerful the landscape can be.” (p.20) —Hannah Mathews: editor, curator, and Director, Perth Institute of Contemporary Arts (PICA), Australia.

“Kreckler’s practice has manifested itself in many different forms and media, and I have been lucky enough to see much of it. Each work he has made, no matter how different and varied, has manifested a flicker between a richness of effect and reference and an irreducibility of event at its centre.” —Richard Grayson, artist, curator, and writer currently based in London, UK (p.24)

Quoted from Derek Kreckler: Accident and Process, edited by Hannah Matthews, Perimeter Editions, Melbourne, and Idea Books, Amsterdam, 2015.