Spowers and Syme
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Ethel Spowers, Balloons, c. 1920, National Gallery of Australia, Kamberri/Canberra, gift of Chris Montgomery 1993
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'Is it too great a truism to repeat that the best art is always the child of its own age?'
Celebrating the artistic friendship of Naarm/Melbourne artists Ethel Spowers and Eveline Syme, the National Gallery Touring Exhibition Spowers & 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 Naarm/Melbourne during the 1930s and ‘40s.
Much-loved for their innovative approach to lino and woodcut techniques, Spowers & 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.
Spowers & Syme is a National Gallery of Australia Touring Exhibition supported by Visions of Australia, Major Patron David Thomas AM, and the Gordon Darling Foundation. Spowers & Syme is a Know My Name project.
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Ethel Spowers, Skating, c 1932, National Gallery of Australia, Kamberri/Canberra, David Thomas OAM and Barbara Thomas Fund in honour of the philanthropy of Tim Fairfax Deputy Chairman of the National Gallery of Australia 2014.
Ethel Spowers, The gust of wind, 1930, National Gallery of Australia, Kamberri/Canberra, purchased 1976
Ethel Spowers, Bank holiday, 1935, National Gallery of Australia, Kamberri/Canberra, purchased 1976
Ethel Spowers, School is out, 1936, National Gallery of Australia, Kamberri/Canberra, purchased 1976
Ethel Spowers, Balloons, c.1920, National Gallery of Australia, Kamberri/Canberra, gift of Chris Montgomery 1993
Ethel Spowers, The bamboo blind, 1926, National Gallery of Australia, Kamberri/Canberra, purchased 1976
Eveline Syme, Skating., 1929, National Gallery of Australia, Kamberri/Canberra, purchased 1979
Eveline Syme, The Yarra at Warrandyte, 1931, National Gallery of Australia, Kamberri/Canberra, purchased 1977, © Estate of Eveline Syme
Eveline Syme, The factory, 1933, National Gallery of Australia, Kamberri/Canberra, purchased 1979, © Estate of Eveline Syme
Eveline Syme, Sydney tram line, 1936, National Gallery of Australia, Kamberri/Canberra, purchased 1979, © Estate of Eveline Syme
Eveline Syme, Beginners’ class, 1956, National Gallery of Australia, Kamberri/Canberra, purchased 1992, © Estate of Eveline Syme
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