Dahl Collings b. 1909

Also known as Dulcie Wilmott, Dulcie Collings, Mrs Geoffrey Collings
  • Artist (Cartoonist / Illustrator),
  • Designer (Textile Artist / Fashion Designer),
  • Artist (Photographer),
  • Artist (Painter),
  • Designer (Graphic Designer),
  • Designer (Architect / Interior Architect / Landscape Architect)
Dahl Collings was a painter, commercial artist, graphic and exhibition designer, illustrator, costume and textile designer, photographer and documentary film-maker. Often working in partnership with her husband Geoffrey Collings, she worked in London in the late 1930s with László Moholy-Nagy
Tags: display design

Citations

  • Smith, Ure (c.1945), 'Australia’.

  • Caban, Geoffrey (1983), 'A Fine Line: A History of Australian Commercial Art’, Sydney, NSW.

  • Crombie, Isobel (1989), 'A documentary impulse: Australian photographer Geoffrey Collings’, Art Bulletin of Victoria, Volume 29.

  • (1992), 'Pioneers of Design’, Sydney, NSW : Ivan Dougherty Gallery catalogue.

  • (1938), 'Arts et Metiers Graphiques’, Paris, France.

  • (28 June 1938), Birmingham Post.

  • (c.1939), 'Modern Publicity’, London, England, UK : (1939/1940).

  • (1939), 'Publicité: Edition Arts et Metiers Graphiques’, Paris, France.

  • (29 May 1955), Sydney, NSW : Sun.

  • (1982), Vogue Living : (April-May 1982).

  • 'Dahl and Geoffrey Collings Design Archive’, Sydney, NSW : Museum of Applied Arts and Sciences (Powerhouse Museum).

  • (1950), 'Lilliput’, London, England, UK.

  • Profile of the designer on return from Britain. . Sydney Morning Herald, 17 November 1938, p.22 (illustrated)

  • Veronica Bremer, “Dahl Collings (1909–1988) and Her Itinerary: Australia, England, and Back” pp.46-64 in MOMOWO Women Designers, Craftswomen, Architects and Engineers between 1918-1945. Series Women’s Creativity, 1, 2017.

    http://www.momowo.eu/symposium/

  • P. Gononi and T. Dalziell, Half the perfect world. Writers, dreamers and drifters on Hydra 1955-1964, p.346 (numerous references to the Collings and daughter Silver on Hydra, incl. the scripting of their film “Toehold in History” (1965)

  • Profile summary, Spark #44, 2019, DIA Hall of Fame issue

  • Van de Ven, A-M, 'Dahl Collings Untitled 1955’, in Cramer and Harding, Call of the Avant-Garde: Constructivism and Australian Art (Heide Museum of Modern Art, 2017),

    https://trove.nla.gov.au/version/246914073

See also

Initial data sources

  • Heritage: The National Women's Art Book