Pamela Croft is a visual artist, academic who grew up in Brisbane. Croft is of Kooma (Uralarai people of south-west Queensland) descent and was born to an Aboriginal mother and a white father. In 1961 Croft was removed from her family and adopted by a non-Indigenous family in Brisbane.

Croft has worked at TAFE Queensland, Queensland University of Technology, Batchelor College, and the Institute for Aboriginal Development in the Northern Territory. In 2003 Croft became the first Indigenous Australian to be awarded a Doctorate in Visual Arts.

Croft's story was recorded by the National Library of Australia for the Bringing Them Home oral history project and appeared in the associated publication Many Voices: Reflections on experiences of Indigenous child separation, edited by Doreen Mellor and Anna Haebich (2002).