Sybil Andrews
British, b.1898, d.1992
The Giant Cable
- 1931
- Linocut
- Presented by Mr Rex Nan Kivell, 1953
- © Glenbow Museum, Calgary, Alberta, Canada, 2012. Reproduced with permission
- 380 x 465mm
- 94/222
Location: Monica Richards Gallery
Tags: cable (material), men (male humans), people (agents), workers
Sybil Andrews was one of the most successful and productive artists of the linocut movement. Her work in the medium was visually engaging and technically proficient, and she completed seventy-six linocuts over her long career.
(One O'Clock Jump: British Linocuts from the Jazz Age, 7 December 2024 - 11 May 2025)
Exhibition History
Leaving for Work, 2 October 2021 – 2 October 2022
In an assertively modern, dynamic style, The Giant Cable portrays a team of workers hauling together to unwind a massive cable wire from the elevated winch. Sybil Andrews was born in the Suffolk town of Bury St Edmunds and took her first art studies by correspondence while working as a welder on aeroplane parts during World War I. After moving to London for further study in 1922, by 1925 she had become secretary at the Grosvenor School of Modern Art. There, the following year, she began learning, from Claude Flight, the colour linocut technique that would launch and establish her own impressive artistic career.
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Eileen Mayo has more than a few fans here at Christchurch Art Gallery and for me her linocuts are a standout of her works represented in the Gallery's collection.