Margo Lewers was an Australian interdisciplinary abstract artist who worked across the media of painting, sculpture, tapestry, ceramics and the domestic arts.
13 Facts About Margo Lewers
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Margo Lewers was renowned for a number of major public commissions and for her landscaping and interior design for the family home at Emu Plains.
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Margo Lewers showed extensively in Australia and in several international travelling exhibitions.
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Margo Lewers, nee Plate, was born in Mosman, Sydney, to Adolph Gustav Plate, a German-born grazier, seaman, writer and artist, and his English-born wife Elsie Gill, nee Burton.
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Margo Lewers was the older sister of artist Carl Plate.
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Early in her career, Margo Lewers opened the interior design shop Notanda Galleries.
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Margo Lewers worked on creating complementary interior design pieces for the family home, designing wooden furniture to match a cream base in ceramics and linen.
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James Gleeson reviewed Margo Lewers' painting as ambitious but requiring better development of technique.
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In 1960, Margo Lewers held a solo exhibition at Gallery A, an important contemporary art space in Sydney.
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Two years later, Gerald died, and in 1965 Margo Lewers completed his major public commission, "Expansion", for the Reserve Bank in Canberra.
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In 1966, Margo Lewers held a solo show of paintings at Macquarie Galleries, and in 1968 she received a further major commission from the Reserve Bank of Australia for a tapestry for their boardroom.
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Margo Lewers exhibited frequently throughout her lifetime in both group and solo shows and her work was collected by major state galleries.
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Margo Lewers has been included in a small number of group shows.