Reviving the Print

On Saturday, 12 April, Reviving the Print: The Grosvenor School of Modern Art opens at Dunedin Public Art Gallery. Located in the BNZ gallery on the ground floor, this exhibition brings together a focused group of prints made by some of the teachers and students associated with the Grosvenor School of Modern Art. Established in 1925 in London, this school is celebrated for its role in reviving an interest in printmaking, and particularly the linocut, in Britain in the 1920s and 1930s. Pioneering a new style of arts education, the Grosvenor School offered space for experimentation, with many artists using their works to reflect life in Britain in the interwar years. Drawing on the Gallery’s collection of mid-twentieth century British prints, Reviving the Printincludes works by Cyril Power, Sybil Andrews, Lill Tschudi, Iain Macnab, Eileen Mayo, Mary Groom, Julia Mavrogordato, and Margaret Barnard, among others.

Reviving the Print: The Grosvenor School of Modern Art can be viewed at Dunedin Public Art Gallery from 12 April – 7 September 2025.

Noho ora mai
Lauren Gutsell
Kairauhī Curator
Dunedin Public Art Gallery

[Image: Dame Eileen Mayo Children with umbrellas 1962. Linocut on paper. Collection of the Dunedin Public Art Gallery. Purchased 1965 with funds from the Dunedin Public Art Gallery Society]