Mary Joyce
Mary Joyce is an award-winning printmaker, drawer, and painter, and has been producing and exhibiting in Canada and Europe since 1986. She explores the culture of resistance and social change in her work, along with ideas of speed and the passing of time. Her work also probes notions of memory, labour, and women’s work.
From 2000-2012, Joyce’s paintings explored how the body, mind, and heart are simultaneously imprinted with sensory evidence of the rapid passage through time and space. She made drawings while in motion on the back of a motorcycle, which resulted in a cinematic approach to her paintings. Her attention veered to motion in cities and crowds, and of political mobilization and citizen engagement. Her work invites ongoing celebration of the courage and resilience of activists.
Mary Joyce earned a BFA in Printmaking from the University of Alberta, and a BA in Literature and Art History from McMaster University. She exhibits in solo and group shows regularly, and won first prize from France’s Salon International Art Résilience in 2018.
Joyce’s work is in private collections throughout Canada, Europe, and the USA, and in the collection of the Alberta Foundation for the Arts, the Flint Print Studio Archives at the Art Gallery of Hamilton, the Ad Axiom Art Gallery of Burlington, and at Husky Oil in Newfoundland.
Joyce lives and works in Edmonton.
From 2000-2012, Joyce’s paintings explored how the body, mind, and heart are simultaneously imprinted with sensory evidence of the rapid passage through time and space. She made drawings while in motion on the back of a motorcycle, which resulted in a cinematic approach to her paintings. Her attention veered to motion in cities and crowds, and of political mobilization and citizen engagement. Her work invites ongoing celebration of the courage and resilience of activists.
Mary Joyce earned a BFA in Printmaking from the University of Alberta, and a BA in Literature and Art History from McMaster University. She exhibits in solo and group shows regularly, and won first prize from France’s Salon International Art Résilience in 2018.
Joyce’s work is in private collections throughout Canada, Europe, and the USA, and in the collection of the Alberta Foundation for the Arts, the Flint Print Studio Archives at the Art Gallery of Hamilton, the Ad Axiom Art Gallery of Burlington, and at Husky Oil in Newfoundland.
Joyce lives and works in Edmonton.