Lilian Dring
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| birth_name = Lilian Margery Welch
| birth_date = 1908
| birth_place = Surbiton, England
| death_date = {{death year and age|1998|1908}}
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| alma_mater = {{ubl|Kingston School of Art|Royal College of Art}}
| known_for = Poster design, textile art
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| spouse = Cyril James Dring (m.1931–1985, his death)
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Lilian Margery Dring ({{nee}} Welch; 1908–1998) was a British artist known for her paintings, poster designs and textile designs. needlework and embroidery work.
Biography
Dring was born in Surbiton in Surrey and attended the Kingston School of Art from 1922 to 1926 before studying for three years at the Royal College of Art in London.{{cite book|author=Sara Gray|publisher=Dark River|year=2019|title= British Women Artists. A Biographical Dictionary of 1000 Women Artists in the British Decorative Arts |isbn=978-1-911121-63-3}} After she graduated Dring lived in Teddington and undertook freelance illustration work and also created designs for needlework and embroidery pieces.{{cite web|url=https://www.ltmuseum.co.uk/collections/collections-online/people/item/1996-4873|title=Lilian M. Dring |website= london transport museum|access-date=31 July 2020}} At the Royal College, Dring was among the first students to take the newly created course in poster design and this led to her submitting a number of poster designs to London Transport during the 1930s.{{cite book|author=David Bownes|publisher=london transport museum|year=2018|title=Poster Girls |isbn=978-1-871829-28-0}} One of these, The Modern God of Transport, was a large design over three poster sheets depicting the god Mercury running the London Underground network.{{cite web|url=https://www.ltmuseum.co.uk/collections/collections-online/artwork/item/1985-123?&apiurl=aHR0cHM6Ly9hcGkubHRtdXNldW0uY28udWsvYWxsP3Nob3J0PTEmc2tpcD0wJmxpbWl0PTQ4JnE9TGlsaWFuK0RyaW5n&searchpage=Y29sbGVjdGlvbnMvY29sbGVjdGlvbnMtb25saW5lL3RoZS1jb2xsZWN0aW9uL3BhZ2UvMT8mcT1MaWxpYW4rRHJpbmc= |title=Poster artwork: The modern god of transport by Lilian Dring, circa 1938|website=london transport museum|access-date=31 July 2020}}
In 1940 Dring created a series of billboard posters for the Youth Hostels Association after which she appears to have concentrated on textile designs.{{cite web|url= http://collections.vam.ac.uk/item/O189153/join-the-youth-hostels-association-poster-dring-lilian/ |title=Search the Collections: Join the Youth Hostels Association |website=Victoria & Albert Museum|access-date=31 July 2020}} From 1942 to 1945 textile pieces by Dring were included in British Council exhibitions in the United States. For the 1951 Festival of Britain she designed and assembled the 100 panel Patchwork of the Century.{{cite web|url=https://www.southbankcentre.co.uk/about/what-we-do/1951-festival-britain-remembered|title=The 1951 Festival of Britain remembered|website=Southbank Centre|access-date=1 August 2020}} She was elected a member of the Arts and Crafts Exhibition Society and exhibited with the Embroiderers' Guild and at the Whitworth Art Gallery. Dring also wrote on arts and craft education for various publications and also wrote and illustrated several books for children.
Both the London Transport Museum and the Victoria & Albert Museum hold examples of Dring's poster designs, while the latter also has examples of her embroidery and textile work.{{cite web|url=http://collections.vam.ac.uk/search/?listing_type=&offset=0&limit=15&narrow=&extrasearch=&q=Lilian+Dring&commit=Search&quality=0&objectnamesearch=&placesearch=&after=&before=&namesearch=&materialsearch=&mnsearch=&locationsearch=|title=Search the Collections: Lilian Dring |website=Victoria & Albert Museum|access-date=31 July 2020}} A further piece, dating from 1938, is in the National Museums Scotland collection while the National Trust has a 1964 embroidered collage by Dring.{{cite web|url=https://www.nms.ac.uk/explore-our-collections/collection-search-results/curtain-door/361935|title=Curtain, door|website=National Museums Scotland|access-date=1 August 2020}}{{cite web|url=http://www.nationaltrustcollections.org.uk/object/196260|title=Greys Court|website=National Trust|access-date=1 August 2020}}
Further reading
- Textile Graphics by Lilian Dring, 1988, by Joan Edwards with a foreword by Constance Howard, published by Bayford.
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Category:20th-century English women artists
Category:20th-century British women textile artists
Category:20th-century British textile artists
Category:Alumni of Kingston University
Category:Alumni of the Royal College of Art
Category:British graphic designers
Category:British women graphic designers