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Joyce Bidder, full name, Muriel Joyce Bidder, was born in London, 5 January 1906, and died in London 26 February 1999. She was a British sculptor, practising in the mid 20th Century, who studied at Wimbledon School of Art. She worked with Daisy Borne in a shared studio which had been acquired from Charles Doman.

Her debut at the Royal Academy in 1932, was with a plaster sculpture, 'Tackled', of two rugby players. She also exhibited in the Fine Art Society's 1986 exhibition "Sculpture in Britain Between the Wars". Her work includes a plaster piece, 'Labour', of "two navvies carrying between them poles festooned with a dense assemblage of shovels and ropes".

She is featured by the British Sporting Art Trust. Joyce Bidder is quoted as saying about her work, "all natural things, but on the whole I have treated them as subsidiary to the human form", in the book, 'Joyce Bidder & Daisy Borne', by Peyton Skipwith, 1987, published by The Fine Art Society, London.