Margo Lewers

Margo Lewers
Born(1908-04-23)23 April 1908
Died20 February 1978(1978-02-20) (aged 69)
EducationLate 1920s evening classes with Antonio Dattilo-Rubbo

1934–35 Central School of Arts and Crafts, London

1940–45 evening classes with Desiderius Orban, Sydney
Known forPainting, sculpture, mosaics, ceramics, tapestries
MovementModernism, Australian modernism, abstract art

Margo Lewers (1908–1978) was an Australian interdisciplinary abstract artist who worked across the media of painting, sculpture, tapestry, ceramics and the domestic arts. She was renowned for a number of major public commissions and for her landscaping and interior design for the family home at Emu Plains. Her early compositions explored colour and formal geometric abstraction; her work became more fluid and expressionist by the early 1960s. She showed extensively in Australia and in several international travelling exhibitions. She won at least fourteen awards and prizes.[1] The Penrith Regional Gallery and Lewers Bequest now stands on her property at Emu Plains.[2]

  1. ^ Crayford, Michael. "Lewers, Hettie Margaret (Margo) (1908–1978)". Australian Dictionary of Biography. Canberra: National Centre of Biography, Australian National University.
  2. ^ "Penrith Regional Gallery - home of the Lewers Bequest". Gallery. Retrieved 26 August 2020.