Spowers & Syme curator floor talk
Join us for a floor talk with Spowers & Syme exhibition curator, Dr Sarina Noordhuis-Fairfax.
Dr Sarina Noordhuis-Fairfax has enjoyed the role of Curator, Australian Prints and Drawings at the National Gallery of Australia since 2008. Her recent exhibitions include Spowers & Syme, Cressida Campbell and Performing Drawing.
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 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.
Image credit: Dr Sarina Noordhuis-Fairfax. Courtesy of the National Gallery of Australia.
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