Melbourne-born Ethel Spowers, a key figure in modern linocut art, soars in her 1932 piece Swings. The artists earlier illustrations for childrens stories demonstrate Spowerss interest in linocut, but it wasnt until coming across artist Claude Flights 1927 book Lino-Cuts at a Melbourne bookstore that she devoted herself to the medium through which she would produce her most famous works. Flight was a pioneering and eccentric linocut printmaker and teacher at the Grosvenor School of Art in London who touted the potential of linocut as a vibrant, modern way of making artand one that produced accessible pieces, too. Spowers, the daughter of a wealthy newspaper magnate, became hooked on both the form and Flights idea that art should be affordable to all. She enrolled at the Grosvenor School, where she studied under Flight between 1928 and 1929 and emerged as a titan of linocut. You can see why Swings is a perfect new edition for us to releaseafter all, we believe that art should be for everyone!