Joyce Abbott

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exhibited at
Joint exhibition: Pixie O'Harris and Joyce Abbott
Date
15 June 1937 - 1937
Place
Wynyard Book Club, Sydney, NSW
Type
Exhibition
exhibited at
Health Department poster competition
Date
26 June 1934 - 30 June 1934
Place
Farmer's Blaxland Galleries, Sydney, New South Wales
Type
Exhibition
exhibited at
Australian Watercolour Institute's Exhibition, 1932
Date
14 April 1932
Place
Education Department's Art Gallery, Sydney, New South Wales
Type
Exhibition

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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 children's 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 was a finalist in the 1943 Wynne Prize and the 1944 and 1945 Archibald Prize at the Art Gallery of New South Wales. Abbott illustrated children's books by Gladys Lister and in 1953 A booklet for Australian Museum Sydney Australian Aborigines /​ illustrated by Joyce Abbott ; in collaboration with Beryl Graham and F.D.McCarthy in 1953 but has no currently known work in from the late 1950s on. A scant few works in oil and on paper are listed at auction.