JOYCE EVANS

truly is the ‘doyenne’ of Australian photography. In the late ‘70’s Joyce opened Australia’s first photographic gallery and bookshop in Church Street, Melbourne. It showcased the best of Australian and International photographers and became Australia’s most innovative gallery with an international reputation. Joyce exhibited works by Frank Hurley, Bill Henson, Henri Cartier-Bresson, David Moore, Max Dupain and other renowned photographers – this also gave Joyce the opportunity to become a collector in her own right. Passionately dedicated to photography and talented herself, she has had many solo exhibitions of both her landscapes and her portraits throughout Australia and Europe. Joyce has spent 10 years documenting Australia for the National Library, which holds over 350 of her images.

Joyce is a practicing photographer, artist and has also worked as a lecturer, an approved valuer, an assistant director, a curator and is also a Research Fellow at Melbourne University.

She has exhibited extensively in Australia and in France and her photographs are held in collections all over the world. Joyce is a two time recipient of the IAPP Print of the Year Award and has also won the Hassleblad Masters.

Joyce has been published extensively; her last book was ‘ONLY ONE KILOMETRE’. She is also included in ‘WHO’s WHO of AUSTRALIAN WOMEN’ and the ‘WORLD’s WHO’s WHO of WOMEN’.

Joyce lives in Melbourne and continues to photograph what she calls ‘her heart’ – the Australian landscape.