Eveline Syme
Sydney tram line 1936
linocut, printed in colour inks, from four blocks
National Gallery of Australia, Kamberri/Canberra Purchased 1979
© Estate of Eveline Syme

Eveline Syme
Sydney tram line 1936
linocut, printed in colour inks, from four blocks
National Gallery of Australia, Kamberri/Canberra Purchased 1979
© Estate of Eveline Syme


Spowers & Syme

Saturday 16 July to Sunday 16 October 2022

Free entry


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.

 

A National Gallery touring exhibition
16 July to 16 October 2022


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