Sybil Andrews

Sybil Andrews was an accomplished printmaker and painter whose modernist linocuts expressed the energy and speed of the machine age. Encouraged by her teacher Claude Flight at the Grosvenor School of Modern Art, Andrews developed a dynamic style of overlaid forms that reflected the influence of Cubism, Futurism, and the Vorticism movement. Her work depicted race cars, motorcycles, machinery, subway commuters, and other images of modern industrial society. Working jointly under the pseudonym Andrew Power, Andrews and her partner Cyril Power received commissions to produce promotional posters for Transport for London, advertising events such as the 1933 Wimbledon tennis tournament. In particular, sports images demonstrate her masterful ability to portray velocity and the human figure in motion.