Joyce Warren studied at the Julian Ashton and National Art School, Sydney, from 1944 to 1949, and from 1947 to 1959 worked in advertising departments and agencies in Sydney and London. From 1952 to 1955 she studied ceramics at Camberwell School of Art, London, and after returning to Australia in 1959 undertook a refresher course in ceramics at the National Art School, Sydney, from 1961 to 1963. In 1963 she was a founder member of Ceramic Study Group, from 1965 to 1969 a founder member of Crafts Association of Australia and the Crafts Association of New South Wales (now craft councils), and from 1969 to 1975 she was a founder, editor, and involved in the production of Craft Australia. She received a Crafts Board of the Australia Council grant in 1972 to study the formulation, testing and production of low-temperature procelainous clay bodies. From 1975 to 1980 she studied for a B.A. (Hons) in Fine Arts at the University of Sydney. From 1979 she lectured in art history and theory at the City Art Institute and from 1982 at the Sydney College of the Arts.

 

Joyce Warren has exhibited her work since 1969 and is currently (1988) working on a doctoral thesis concerned with the imagery of crafts and its diffusion. She is married to the painter Guy Warren (born 1921).

 

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