Spowers & Syme: Floor Talk

Join QUT Galleries and Museums Engagement Officer, Renae Belton on a tour of Spowers & Syme at QUT Art Museum.

Spowers & Syme is a National Galley of Australia touring exhibition and a project of the Know My Name initiative that seeks to redress the underrepresentation of women artists. This exhibition champions the exquisite prints and drawings of two of Australia’s most innovative female artists of the early 20th Century. Ethel Spowers and Eveline Syme were both deeply influenced by European Modernism and spent time abroad studying at the Grosvenor School, immersing themselves in the innovative teachings and techniques of the time which pushed the boundaries of woodcut and linocut printmaking methods. Despite working almost 100 years ago, the aesthetic sensibility of these two artists has an utterly contemporary feel and will have significant currency today to a generation of artists, designers and illustrators.

Local illustrator and designer Kathleen Jennings has been commissioned to create an activity space where people can explore basic printmaking techniques, pattern making and drawing.

This event is part of BRISBANE ART DESIGN 2023.

Image credit: Ethel SPOWERS, Swings 1932, linocut. National Gallery of Australia Collection. Purchased 1976.

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