anonymous sitters to intelligentsia and personalities, among them Marianne Baillieu; Barbara Blackman; Baron Avid von Blumenthal; Tim Burstall; Dur-e Dara; Robert Dessaix; Germaine Greer; Elena Kats-Chernin; Joan Kerr; Ellen Koshland; David Malouf; Dame Elisabeth Murdoch; Lin Onus; Jill Reichstein; and Chris Wallace-Crabbe. Evans worked as an honorary photographer for the Department of Aboriginal Affairs in Central Australia and for over ten years documented Australian country towns and events for the National Library of Australia. Education and lecturing Evans played an educational role in Australian photography. She taught history of photography at Melbourne's RMIT University; was appointed inaugural assistant director of Waverley City Gallery (now Monash Gallery of Art), 1990–1991, the first municipal public collection in Melbourne to specialise in photography; inaugurated a course on the History of Photography taught by Daniel Palmer and was appointed Research Fellow at the University of Melbourne (1997–2010). Evans continued conducting lectures and photographic workshops, predominantly in Melbourne and regional Victoria. Exhibitions Solo exhibitions National Trust Gallery, Melbourne. 2010: Obscura Gallery, St Kilda East, Vic. Group exhibitions 2011: Phiction: Lies, Illusion and the Phantasm in Australia Photography, Horsham Regional Art Gallery and touring eleven regional and metropolitan public galleries. Broken Hill Regional Art Gallery. 2015: Streetwise, Photonet Gallery, Fairfield, February 1–22 2019 In Her Words : A NETS Touring Exhibition curated by Olivia Poloni, Horsham Regional Art Gallery 2 March – 19 May; Wangaratta Art Gallery, 01 Nov – 15 Dec. Awards Hasselblad Masters (Landscape Division), 1985 Print of the Year Award, IAPP Victorian Division (1985) Print of the Year Award, IAPP Victorian Division (1991) Medal of the Order of Australia (OAM) in the 2019 Queen's Birthday Honours for service to photography. Collections Evans' work is held in the following permanent public collections: Musée de la Photographie, Mougins, France National Library of Australia National Gallery of Victoria State Library of Victoria State Library of New South Wales (Mitchell Library Collection) Jewish Museum of Australia Castlemaine Art Museum Horsham Regional Art Gallery Monash Gallery of Art Museum of Victoria, Melbourne Immigration Museum, Melbourne; Tapestry In 1995, Evans' Selby Daffodils (Cotswald Farm), was made into a tapestry by the Australian Tapestry Workshop, Melbourne. Publications Joyce Evans: Imaging the Spiritual 1980–2010, exhib. cat., Melbourne: Obscura Gallery, 2010 References Further reading McCulloch's Encyclopaedia of Australian Art (Alan and Susan McCulloch, eds, 2006); p. 409 Dictionary of Australian Women Artists (Max Germaine, 1991) Who's Who of Australian Women (1982, 2007)