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on 1 July 1924. Her father, Cyril
Stanley Frank Girling, was an engineer working for Dunlop Tyre Company and her mother was Beatrice May (née Harvey). Many of her family members had been painters, including her paternal grandfather, uncle and aunt. Her grandfather was also an art dealer in London,
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Workshop with Caro, philanthropist Robert Loder and curator Terry Fenton. Triangle Workshop was an artistic network that connected abstract painters and sculptors across continents. Here, Girling developed her collage painting technique that makes-up her late body of work.
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Girling began making smaller collage works on canvas and paper, alongside her established large-scale collage paintings. In the later half of her career, her works moved towards figuration, often sitting at the boundary between abstraction and representation.
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Girling took part in numerous solo and group exhibitions at major venues including Camden Art Gallery, Warwick Arts Trust, Acquavella Contemporary Art, The Royal Academy and Francis Graham Dixon Gallery.
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painters and reformulated what her practice was and could be. In 1965 the couple returned to
England to a vibrant arts scene and raised their two sons. Over this period, Girling developed close relationships with the
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Academy. Her first solo exhibitions were in Canada, but she exhibited widely in Britain and the United States. Her works are in the collections of The Yale Centre for British Art (New Haven),
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during a clay workshop with ceramicist Margie Hughto in 1978. Rather than putting pigment on the clay, Girling broke with tradition and put pigment into the clay, which was then layered and pressed together.
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opened at Roche Court, Salisbury, celebrating what
Girling and Caro called a ‘64 year conversation about art’. Then in 2015, after her death, a retrospective of her work was held at
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She paused her art career to focus on raising them, however she took an active role in the career of her husband, advising him and selecting the colour of
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Department Sophie Camus and her husband, the documentary photographer and Girling’s neighbour at Frognal, Alexander Lindsay.
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