Dr Pam Johnston obtained a PhD in Creative Art and Design from Wollongong
University in 1998, the first Indigenous Australian to do so, and a further PhD in
Education in 2007. She has worked in Women's Refuges, Rape Crisis Centres and
Women's Health. Dr Johnston has been a teacher within the prison system for many
years. She has researched and written curriculums for women and
Indigenous inmates within the New South Wales prison system. Dr. Johnston sees
herself primarily as a visual artist and secondarily as a writer. She has exhibited and
is represented in collections within Australia as well as in Belgium, England,
Scotland, France, and the United States of America. She has written for various
magazines in Australia, New Zealand, United States of America, and England.
