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.
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Citations

  • '(Family papers)’.

  • Crayford, Michael (2000), 'Lewers, Hettie Margaret Ernestine (Margot) (1908-1978)’, Melbourne, Vic : in Australian Dictionary of Biography, (Volume 15), Ritchie, John (ed.).

  • Bell, Pamela (2002), 'Margo Lewers Retrospective’, Sydney, NSW : S.H. Ervin Gallery catalogue (travelling exhibition).

  • Eccles, Jeremy (2002), 'Margo Lewers: At Last A Retrospective’, Art & Australia 40/1 (Spring 2002), 67-69.

  • Hickey, Denise (1982), 'Gerald and Margo Lewers: Their Lives and Their Work’, Mosman, NSW.

  • Kerr, Joan (2003), 'Margo Lewers: Thoroughly Modern’, Australian Art Collector 24 (April-June 2003), 68-70.

  • Pamela Bell. “Margo Lewers and the establishment of Notanda Gallery.” Sydney Moderns, AGNSW, 2013, pp.274-277

  • Michael Bogle. “Architecture, Coffee and Cocktails.” Leisure Space. P. Hogben and J. O’Callaghan, eds. 2014, p.124 (Canberra Rex mural)

See also

  • 'Frank Hinder, Margo Draws a Vertebrae 1945, coloured pencil 16 x 24 cm, sold Deutscher-Menzies 1 May 2001, lot 180 (colour ill, est. $700-1,000) inscribed 'Penrith - 45 F.C.H' (terrific small sketch)'.
  • 'Heritage chapter 5, plate 223, Studio n.d. (c.1952), watercolour and ink on paper 38 x 26 cm. Lewers Bequest and Penrith Regional Art Gallery, gift of the artist's daughters, Darani Lewers and Tanya Crothers'.

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  • Mike Brown Appeal Fund Exhibition (exhibited at)
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  • Peter Bray Gallery (exhibited at)
  • Contemporary Art Society (exhibited at)
  • Margo Lewers retrospective (exhibited at)
  • Women at Watters (exhibited at)
  • Eveolution: An exhibition of women's art from the Newcastle Region Art Gallery collection (exhibited at)
  • Women Artists from the Collection (exhibited at)
  • Review (exhibited at)
  • Australian Women Artists of the Twentieth Century from the collection of Elinor and Fred Wrobel (exhibited at)
  • Off the Wall: Art from the very eclectic collection of Liverpool City Council (exhibited at)
  • The Other Side of the Coin: Women artists from the Albury collection (exhibited at)
  • Margo Lewers: Small Paintings (exhibited at)
  • Drawings & Paintings: A Group Show (exhibited at)
  • Paintings & Sculpture (exhibited at)
  • Mike Brown Appeal Fund Exhibition (exhibited at)
  • Look, Look Again (exhibited at)