Spowers & Syme Exhibition
I viewed this exhibition at the Canberra Museum and Gallery a few months back and have been meaning to send a post ever since! It is a terrific exhibition, well worth the effort to see, especially now that it is coming to the Geelong Art Gallery. No idea why it wasn't shown at the National Gallery in Canberra, as they put the exhibition together and have long championed the work of important women artists like Syme and Spowers.
Here are some photos and more information.
'Celebrating the artistic friendship of Melbourne artists Ethel Spowers and Eveline Syme, the National Gallery Touring Exhibition Spowers and Syme will present the changing face of interwar Australia through the perspective of two pioneering modern women artists.
The exhibition offers rare insight into the unlikely collaboration between the daughters of rival media families. Studying together in Paris and later with avant-garde printmaker Claude Flight in London, Ethel Spowers and Eveline Syme returned to the conservative art world of Australia – where they became enthusiastic exponents of modern art in Melbourne during the 1930s and ‘40s.
Much-loved for their innovative approach to lino and woodcut techniques, Spowers and Syme showcases their dynamic approach through prints and drawings whose rhythmic patterns reflect the fast pace of the modern world through everyday observations of childhood themes, overseas travel and urban life'. Geelng Gallery website. View Exhibition details here.
A National Gallery of Australia touring exhibition
In Geelong from 16 July to 16 October 2022
