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Margo Lewers b. 1908

Also known as Margo Plate, Henrietta Margaret Ernestine Lewers

Artist (Painter),
Artist (Ceramist),
Designer (Graphic Designer)

Margo Lewers was primarily a painter and an admirer of the Bauhaus movement which she experienced during travels in Germany in 1934. She was initially active as a commercial artist, textile designer, potter and gallery manager [Notanda, Sydney, closed in 1939, reopened 1940]. As a leading abstract expressionist painter, she received favourable reviews, won many awards and her work was included in major exhibitions.

exhibited at

Look, Look Again

Date: 20 October 2011 - 15 December 2012
Place: Lawrence Wilson Art Gallery, University of Western Australia, Perth, WA
Description: Exhibition showcasing highlights from the Cruthers Collection of Women’s Art (CCWA), which was gifted to the University of Western Australia in 2007. A companion publication titled 'Into the Light’ that documented the history and key works of the CCWA was released to coincide with the exhibition, which also featured a symposium – 'Are we there yet?’ – discussing women’s participation in art and art history and the future of feminism in the arts.
Type: Exhibition
Website: http://www.lwgallery.uwa.edu.au/exhibitions/past/look-look-again

exhibited at

Margo Lewers retrospective

Date

2002

Place

Orange Regional Gallery, Orange, NSW

Description

A Manly Art Gallery & Museum Touring Exhibition with the support of Visions of Australia. Exhibition examines the career of one of Australia’s most outstanding female abstract expressionists, presents Lewers’ vibrant, colour-laden and imaginative paintings, complemented by her lesser known yet innovative fabric works, plexiglass sculpture and tapestry. The exhibition also looks at her major public commissions throughout Australia and in particular Canberra.

Source: Solo Survey Exhibition Linkage Project, Tasmanian School of Art, UTAS
ORG exhibition archive; http://info.anu.edu.au/mac/Drill_Hall_Gallery/Program_2003.asp#Molvig (05/08/03); AGNSW Library catalogue

Exhibition Catalogue:
Bell, Pamela, Margo Lewers retrospective. Sydney: National Trust of Australia, 2002
ISBN 0957765703

Type

Exhibition

Tags

Retrospective, Painting

exhibited at

Off the Wall: Art from the very eclectic collection of Liverpool City Council

Date: 13 March 1995 - 7 April 1995
Place: Casula Powerhouse Arts Centre, Casula, NSW
Type: Exhibition
Tags: National Women's Art Exhibition

exhibited at

Eveolution: An exhibition of women's art from the Newcastle Region Art Gallery collection

Date: 9 March 1995 - June 1995
Place: Newcastle Region Art Gallery, Newcastle, NSW
Description: Opened by Deborah Mills and the Lord Mayor of Newcastle, 8 March 1995.
Type: Exhibition
Tags: National Women's Art Exhibition

exhibited at

Review

Date: 8 March 1995 - 8 June 1995
Place: Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, NSW
Description: Speaking of Women, four guest lectures; by Nancy Underhill, Ann Thomson, Margo Neale, Joan Kerr; held over successive Fridays, 10-31 March 1995, by the Art Gallery Society.
Type: Exhibition
Tags: National Women's Art Exhibition

exhibited at

Australian Women Artists of the Twentieth Century from the collection of Elinor and Fred Wrobel

Date: 8 March 1995 - 1995
Place: Woolloomooloo Gallery, Woolloomooloo, Sydney, NSW
Description: touring exhibition. Lewers Bequest and Penrith Regional Art Gallery show launched by Joan Kerr, 11 June 1995.
Type: Exhibition
Tags: National Women's Art Exhibition