Jim Davidson, author and academic and most importantly for this blog, close friend of Joy’s wrote in the Melbourne Age of Joys’ role in her local community and her artistic practice.
https://sites.google.com/site/joypeckartist/home/example-page
At home in the fantastic, yet her work was also surprisingly gritty
Ode to Joy: a tribute by Philip Adams
Joy died in 2008 after the dreaded ‘long illness’ in this case esophageal cancer. Philip, a very long term friend wrote this tribute, as well as a short tribute on his LNL radio show the first night he broadcast after her death. The written tribute is preserved here: Ode to Joy – Philip Adams
Joy Peck 