The AARDT Foundation Collection explores a variety of distinct forms of expression against its utilitarian backdrop. It is characterised by several areas of concentration and various movements in art history, including the Early Renaissance, Northern European, Minimalism and Post-Minimalism, Conceptualism, Light and Space, Earth/Land, and Time-based. Both Crawford's painting Emergence and monotype Shadow are in the collection.

"Emergence is displayed alongside drawings by Willem de Kooning and Hans Hoffman, as well as Ita Maude Wooller's abstract painting, Woman. 

Emergence sits in the middle of a historical dialogue between Hofmann and de Kooning's early-to-mid century drawings of the human body, and Wooller's contemporary work of abstraction. Crawford's figure strikes a balance between that which is concrete and recognisable, and a dreamlike, abstract indeterminancy that arises from her use of negative space.   

Her monotype, Shadow also joins the collection and is displayed alongside Giovanni Battista Piazetta's Saint Teresa in Ecstasy.

Shadow, a reflection painted from behind, is juxtaposed by the classical composition of Piazetta's female saint who leans back in a quiet contemplative ecstasy. The two works share a minimalist close-crop composition, and muted colour relationship. There is a strong contrast in the whites and sepias in both the draped clothing and the nude figure.

Crawford's positioning alongside Piazetta establishes her work in the art historical canon and the development of figurative painting from the 18th century to the modern day."