stained glass maker and metal worker, was born in Adelaide, a daughter of Arthur Robert Lungley and a granddaughter of Henry Ayers. Her younger sister was the printmaker Dorothy Lungley . Edith left Australia forever when aged 24 and worked in London for the rest of her life. She studied stained glass under Herbert Hendrie at the Royal College of Art, receiving her diploma in design in 1913. An admirer of Christopher Whall, Professor Lethaby and other leading figures of the English Arts and Crafts Movement, she exhibited at the Royal Academy and with the Arts and Crafts Society, London. She provided stained glass for Adelaide; in 1932 her stained-glass window 'Knowledge’ was installed in the Mitchell Building at the University of Adelaide.
Edith Lungley was a Fellow of the British Society of Master Glass Painters and an Associate of the Royal College of Arts. Her oeuvre includes an impressive St Joan window – one of a triptych at Brighton, England – and a silver christening bowl set with moonstones. St Joan was used to illustrate Lungley’s article on stained-glass in A Book of South Australia , published by the Women’s Centenary Council (president Miss Adelaide L. Miethke , B.A.); the bowl, 'designed made and engraved by Edith Lungley’, was also reproduced.
- Writers:
- Kerr, Joan
- Date written:
- 1995
- Last updated:
- 1992
