Artist, born in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, who attended St Martin’s School of Art, 1977–81, and Goldsmiths’ College, 1984–6, eventually settling in New York in America. Group shows included A Critic’s Choice at the Air Gallery, and Unheard Music at Stoke-on-Trent City Museum and Art Gallery, both 1986; Ten Years, Nicola Jacobs Gallery, 1989; and PSI Gallery in New York, Venice Biennale (Aperto Section) and Decoy, at the Serpentine Gallery, all 1990. The Decoy catalogue said that her landscapes were “appropriated from glossy tourist postcards.” Interim Art gave Joy a solo show in 1987 and Nicola Jacobs and the Cornerhouse, Manchester, others in 1988. She had work acquired by Leicester Education Authority and the Arts Council.