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
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Australian Commercial and Industrial Artists' Association
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Contemporary Art Society (NSW)
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Collings Productions
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