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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.