Pamela Croft-Warcon

Pamela Croft-Warcon is a Kooma woman from the Uralarai people of South West Queensland who creates her internationally exhibited art from her studio at Keppel Sands on the Capricorn Coast.

Pamela has practised as a visual artist since the mid eighties and has exhibited both domestically and internationally in solo, group and collaborative art exhibitions, including public art.  Her works has exhibited throughout Australia, Europe, Asia and the United States of America.  Pamela works are permanently held in the National Museum of Australia and several regional galleries.

Pamela is the first Indigenous person to gain a Doctor of Visual Arts (Research) from Griffith University and is an active member and representative for Indigenous and community art groups, advocating for artists rights, social justice, self-determination and empowerment.

In 1995, Pamela was awarded Artists-in-Residence at the Cite des Internationale Arts in Paris, France from the Australia Council and in 1998 was awarded the Artist-in Residence in the Philippines also from the Australia Council.

In 2004, Pamela was a finalist for the Suncorp Central Queenslander of the Year and received The Public Art Award of Excellence by the Atlanta Urban Design Commission in the United States.

In 2006 Pamela received funding from the Australia Council, Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander arts board for an artist in residence in Holland and the USA.  In the same year, she was also a recipient of an Australia Council Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander arts fellowship. The fellowship has enabled Pamela to focus solely on creating a body of new work. 

As part of Pamela’s fellowship she has been exploring printmaking process, particularly Mud Map mono-prints which are produced on the muddy mangrove banks of Pumpkin Creek from the ebb and flow of the tides. 

Pamela's attendance at the 2008 Festival of Pacific Arts has been supported by Arts Queensland.