10 Facts About Ethel Spowers

Ethel Louise Spowers was an Australian artist associated with the Grosvenor School of Modern Art in London.

Ethel Spowers was especially known for her linocuts, which are included in the collections of major Australian and British Art Galleries.

Ethel Spowers was a founder of the Contemporary Art Society, promoting modern art in Australia.

Ethel Louise Spowers was born on 11 July 1890, in South Yarra, Melbourne, daughter of a New Zealand father and a London-born mother.

Ethel Spowers continued to live there as an adult and maintained a studio above the stables.

Ethel Spowers was one of several Australian women artists at the Grosvenor School, including Dorrit Black and Eveline Winifred Syme.

Ethel Spowers mounted an exhibition of Australian linocuts in Melbourne in 1930.

Ethel Spowers died on 5 May 1947, after a long illness from cancer, in Melbourne, age 56.

Ethel Spowers apparently destroyed some of her original works late in life.

Ethel Spowers's prints are held in the National Gallery of Victoria and the Ballarat Fine Art Gallery, Victoria.