Exhibitions

December 1915, National Gallery of Victoria School, Melbourne
December 1916, National Gallery of Victoria School, Melbourne
September – October 1916, Victorian Artists’ Society, Melbourne
May – June 1917, Victorian Artists’ Society, Melbourne
September 1917, Arts & Crafts Society of Victoria, Melbourne
September 1917, Victorian Artists’ Society, Melbourne
December 1917, National Gallery of Victoria School, Melbourne
May 1918, Victorian Artists’ Society, Melbourne
September 1918, Victorian Artists’ Society, Melbourne
November 1918, National Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney
May 1919, Arts and Crafts Society of Sydney, Sydney
May – June 1919, Victorian Artists’ Society, Melbourne
July 1919, Margaret MacLean Studio’s, Melbourne
September 1919, Victorian Artists’ Society, Melbourne
November 1919, The Art and Crafts Society, Federal Government House, Melbourne
June 1920, Decoration Galleries*, Melbourne
August 1920, Women Painters’ Clubrooms, Queen Victoria Markets, Sydney
December 1920, Margaret MacLean Studio’s, Melbourne
October 1921, Macrae Gallery, London
October 1924, Women’s Art Club, Athenaeum Hall, Melbourne
October – November 1924, Victorian Artists’ Society, Melbourne
November 1924, The New Gallery, Melbourne
June 1925, possibly included; Athenaeum Gallery Melbourne
September 1925, Arts and Crafts Society, Melbourne Town Hall, Melbourne
October 1925, possibly included; Lyceum Club, Melbourne
October – November 1925, Victorian Artists’ Society, Melbourne
July 1925, The New Gallery, Melbourne
August 1925, The New Gallery*, Melbourne
June 1926, Grosvenor Galleries*, Sydney
June 1926, Montpelier Mansions, Brisbane
September – October 1926, Arts and Crafts Society’s Gallery, Melbourne
October 1926, Lyceum Club, Melbourne
May 1926, Queens Hall, Melbourne
July 1926, possibly included; Fine Arts Gallery Melbourne
August 1927, The New Gallery*, Melbourne
November 1927, Artists’ Society of Canberra, Canberra
December 1927, Grosvenor Galleries Sydney
early 1928, Margaret MacLean Studio’s, Melbourne
September 1928, Arts and Crafts Society of Victoria, Melbourne
December 1928, Unknown Gallery, possibly Decoration Gallery Melbourne
March 1930, Sydney Buildings, Canberra
April – May 1930, Victorian Artists’ Society, Melbourne
May – June 1930, Arts and Crafts Society of Victoria, Melbourne
July – August 1930, The Redfern Gallery, London
September 1930, Arts and Crafts Society of Victoria, Melbourne
December 1930, Everyman’s Lending Library, Melbourne
July – August 1931, The Redfern Gallery, London
July – August 1932, Redfern Gallery, London
March 1932, Modern Art Centre, Sydney
April 1932, Everyman’s Lending Library, Melbourne
August 1932, Everyman’s Lending Library, Melbourne
August 1932, Fine Arts Society’s Gallery, Melbourne
September 1932, Education Department’s Art Gallery, Sydney
December 1932, Grosvenor Galleries, Sydney
December 1932, Arts and Crafts Society of Victoria, Collins House, Melbourne
March 1933, Grosvenor Galleries, Sydney
May – June 1933, The Ward Gallery, London
June 1933, Grosvenor Galleries, Sydney
June – July 1933, Redfern Gallery, London
August 1933, Fine Arts Society’s Gallery, Melbourne
August 1933, Modern Art Centre, Sydney
October – November 1933, Farmer’s Blaxland Galleries, Sydney
November – December 1933, Everyman’s Lending Library*, Melbourne
January – February 1934, Athenaeum Gallery, Melbourne
March 1934, Sedon Galleries, Melbourne
July 1934, Education Department’s Art Gallery, Sydney
July – August 1934, Athenaeum Gallery, Melbourne
July – August 1934, Redfern Gallery, London
possibly in July, August and/or September 1934, Unknown Gallery in Cambridge, Cambridge
October 1934, Society of Arts and Crafts, Education Department Gallery, Sydney
July – August 1935, Redfern Gallery, London
October 1935, Arts and Crafts Society, Melbourne Town Hall, Melbourne
December 1935 – January 1936, National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa
June – July 1936, The Ward Gallery, London
June – July 1936, Redfern Gallery, London
July 1936, Grosvenor Galleries*, Sydney
August 1936, Athenaeum Gallery, Melbourne
August 1937, Athenaeum Gallery, Melbourne
September 1937, Baillieu Allard’s Gallery, Melbourne
October 1938, Redfern Gallery, London
March – April 1939, City of Birmingham Museum and Art Gallery, Birmingham
September 1939, Macquarie Galleries, Sydney
November – December 1939, Redfern Gallery, London
May 1940, Armidale School, Armidale
April 1942, National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne
September 1948, Georges Gallery*, Melbourne
February – March 1949, Tye’s Gallery, Melbourne

* solo exhibition

Works by Ethel Spowers have been continuously exhibited since.

If your gallery of museum has exhibited works by Ethel Spowers please let us know.

Celebrating and showcasing the art of both Ethel Spowers and Eveline Syme, Spowers & Syme, a National Gallery of Australia, Canberra touring exhibition opened in Canberra at the Canberra Museum and Art Gallery in 2021, and toured to Dubbo, Sydney, Geelong and Brisbane through to 2023.