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painter, was born in North Strathfield, Sydney, daughter of Mr and Mrs A. E. Joyce. She obtained her Dip. Art (Hons) at East Sydney Technical College under Douglas Dundas in 1940-46 and was awarded the NSW Travelling Art Scholarship at the end of her studies. She spent four years studying in the UK and Europe, especially at the London School of Arts and Crafts. Returning to Australia in 1954, she was employed as an art teacher in Victoria: art mistress at Ballarat Grammar School then at Melbourne Girls Grammar until 1957. She revisited the UK and Europe in 1972-73 and 1980.

A longstanding member of the Australian Watercolour Institute (she also worked in oil, gouache and pastel), Joyce regularly exhibited with Macquarie Galleries, Sydney. She held her first show there in 1946 and had four solo shows in the 1970s. Three solo exhibitions at the Painters’ Gallery followed between 1983 and 1985. She also had solo exhibitions at the Watercolour Institute (1981), the von Bertouch Galleries at Newcastle (1984), the Beth Hamilton Galleries, Sydney (1988), at Bloomfield Galleries (1993) and with Eva Breuer (1995) as well as participating in various group shows in Melbourne and Sydney. In 1977 she won the Portia Geach prize (for a portrait by a woman artist). A later still life oil painting, Afternoon Tea (p.c.), is reproduced in Germaine.

Writers:

Kerr, Joan

Date written:

1995

Last updated:

2011