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Sarah Tucker is a living example of self-motivated and resilient rehabilitation. With extensive experience in prison art therapy, she brings vast social and cultural insights. Despite 27 years outside of prison, Sarah continues to face challenges, providing her with deep epistemological and phenomenological understanding of society's outcasts.

Raised within and alongside prison cultures, including religious influences and years of training tattoo apprentices, Sarah adeptly navigates prison culture and systemic issues in institutional incarceration. From 2017 to 2023, she taught art therapy to incarcerated individuals in Queensland, documenting and publishing her empirical research.

Having grown up in poverty and completed high school while living on the streets, Sarah is well-versed in overcoming acute struggles, social exclusion, and cultural hurdles. To survive her experiences leading to and following prison, she immersed herself in outlaw motorcycle club business management and street life, employing and mentoring numerous street youth and fundraising for youth events.

Sarah's story is one of 'Serendipity,' where art, books, and prison have been her constants. It was in prison that she began her university education, and she now resides in the home of her former Political Sciences and Anarchy lecturer, producing art, research, publications, program designs, panel forums, consultations, lectures, and mentoring.

25 years of tattooing experience, along with self-taught fine arts, then another seven years working inside maximum security male and female prisons provides her with unique insights into society's forgotten and underground, along with the pivotal place art plays, through visual narration, expression, social antagonist and documentation tool, Sarah uses art as daily practice, furthermore leading her to explore interesting and uncharted research territories Sarah has experience with various creative therapeutic interventions, including facilitating children's group therapy art workshops, individual therapy, and trauma-informed creative therapy practices.

She has several undergraduate and postgraduate degrees: Bachelor of Visual Arts, University of New England (2001); Graduate Certificate in Applied Neuroscience, Christian Heritage College (2021); Graduate Certificate in Criminology, Griffith University (2022); Master of Social Science Leadership, Christian Heritage College (2024); Associate Degree of Arts Therapy, IKON Institute (2024).