The London gallery Lyndsey Ingram is devoting its presentation at Frieze Masters 2026, in Regent's Park from October 14 to October 18, to colour linocuts by five women who studied at the Grosvenor School, which was active from 1925 to 1940: Sybil Andrews, Ursula Fookes, Ethel Spowers, Eveline Syme and Lill Tschudi.
According to the gallery, the selection is meant to draw attention to women's contribution to modernist printmaking and to treat their prints as records of the fast-changing modern world around them, in London and elsewhere. Each artist handled colour, movement, subject and composition in her own way, but together, the gallery says, their work conveys the energy of a society in transition.
Sybil Andrews is represented in the greatest depth. Her prints range from city scenes such as "Straphangers," "Theatre" and "Concert Hall" (all 1929) and "Rush Hour" (1930) to images of sport and speed such as "Wet Race Meeting" (1930), "Racing" and "Speedway" (both 1934). Others turn to rural labour, among them "Tillers of the Soil" (1934), "Haysel" (1936) and "Mowers" (1937), while "The Giant Cable" (1931) and "The Gale" (1935) also appear. Later prints include "Skaters" (1953) and "Wings" (1979).
Lill Tschudi's contribution includes "In the Circus" and "Fixing the Wires" (both 1932), "Sticking Up Posters" and "Kiosk in Paris" (both 1933) and "London Buses" (1949). Ethel Spowers is shown with "Wet Afternoon" (1929–30), "Swings" (1932) and "Tug of War" (1933); Ursula Fookes with "Progress" (circa 1930) and related studies; and Eveline Syme with "Belgian Street" (circa 1931).
The gallery notes that work by these artists is held in museum collections internationally, including the National Gallery of Australia in Canberra, the British Museum and the Victoria and Albert Museum in London, the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York and the National Gallery of Canada in Ottawa.
