Nothing is currently known of Joyce Abbott’s background or training but most likely Sydney based. She was active by 1932 as a member of the Australian Watercolour Institute and had a joint exhibition with already established Sydney illustrator and childrens book author, Pixie O’Harris at the Wynyard Book Club, Sydney, in 1937 later illustrating O’Harris’s Aboriginal theme Goolara in 1943. Abbott contributed a picture story of her own on 'The adventures of Naroo and his playmate, Kawana’ to the 2 November issue of The New South Wales school magazine of literature for our boys and girls indicating that Abbott may have travelled to Central Australia. Abbott remained a contributor until 1947.
Joyce Abbott had works hung in the
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