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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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
exhibited at
Women at Watters
Date
22 February 1995 - 11 March 1995
Place
Watters Gallery, East Sydney, NSW
Type
Exhibition
Tags
National Women's Art Exhibition, Watters Gallery
exhibited at
The Other Side of the Coin: Women artists from the Albury collection
Date
3 February 1995 - 26 February 1995
Place
Albury Regional Art Centre, Albury, NSW
Type
Exhibition
Tags
National Women's Art Exhibition
exhibited at
Women Artists from the Collection
Date
27 January 1995 - 30 April 1995
Place
Lewers Bequest & Penrith Regional Art Gallery, Emu Plains, NSW
Type
Exhibition
Tags
National Women's Art Exhibition
exhibited at
Australian women artists
Date
6 October 1982 - 23 October 1982
Place
Myer Blaxland Gallery, Sydney, New South Wales
Type
Exhibition
Tags
Women and the Arts Festival
exhibited at
32nd annual C.A.S. exhibition
Date
28 October 1970 - 10 November 1970
Place
Farmers Blaxland Gallery, NSW
Type
Exhibition
Tags
Contemporary Art Society
exhibited at
Arts Vietnam
Date
3 October 1968 - October 1968
Place
Gallery A, Sydney, NSW
Type
Exhibition
Tags
Gallery A Sydney
exhibited at
Mike Brown Appeal Fund Exhibition
Date
19 February 1967
Place
Watters Gallery, Sydney, NSW
Type
Exhibition
Tags
Watters Gallery
exhibited at
Paintings & Sculpture
Date
24 November 1965 - 11 December 1965
Place
Watters Gallery, Sydney, NSW
Type
Exhibition
Tags
Watters Gallery
exhibited at
Drawings & Paintings: A Group Show
Date
13 October 1965 - 30 October 1965
Place
Watters Gallery, Sydney, NSW
Type
Exhibition
Tags
Watters Gallery
exhibited at
metropolis 3: ... an exhibition of inter-city painters
Date
11 July 1965 - 30 July 1965
Place
Crana Gallery, Wollongong, NSW
Type
Exhibition
Tags
Crana Gallery
exhibited at
Margo Lewers: Small Paintings
Date
18 November 1964 - 5 December 1964
Place
Watters Gallery, Sydney, NSW
Description

Inaugural exhibition at Watters Gallery

Type
Exhibition
Tags
Watters Gallery
exhibited at
Metropolis 2: an exhibition of 21 city painters
Date
21 July 1964 - 1 August 1964
Place
Crana Gallery, Wollongong, NSW
Type
Exhibition
Tags
Crana Gallery
exhibited at
Metropolis 1: an exhibition by twenty-one prominent Sydney painters
Date
7 July 1963 - 20 July 1963
Description

inaugural exhibition at Crana Gallery

Type
Exhibition
Tags
Crana Gallery
exhibited at
Recent Australian Painting
Date
June 1961 - July 1961
Place
Whitechapel Gallery, London, UK
Type
Exhibition
exhibited at
Exhibition by Australian women artists
Date
7 January 1961 - 22 January 1961
Place
Bailey Arcade, Civic, Canberra, Australian Capital Territory
Description

Organised by the Canberra Art Club to coincide with the Pan-Pacific and South-East Asian Women’s conference

Type
Exhibition
exhibited at
An exhibition of Women's achievements in the Arts
Date
31 August 1960 - 9 September 1960
Place
David Jones Art Gallery, Sydney, NSW
Type
Exhibition
exhibited at
Italian Government travelling art scholarship for painting 1959
Date
16 October 1959 - 8 November 1959
Place
Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, NSW
Type
Exhibition
exhibited at
Women Painters: 1st Annual Exhibition
Date
22 July 1958 - 1 August 1958
Place
Bissietta Art Gallery, Sydney, NSW
Type
Exhibition
exhibited at
Peter Bray Gallery
Date
1952
Place
Melbourne, Vic
Description
Type
Exhibition
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