Althea McNish: exhibitions
In this listing textiles and textile design indicate design for industrial production
2009-10 King’s Lynn Arts Centre (Sep-Oct 2010); Bankfield Museum, Halifax (March-May 2010); Ferens Art Gallery, Kingston-upon-Hull (2009): textiles in exhibition Revolutionary Fabrics and Furniture - Shirley Craven and Hull Traders 1957-1980, curated by Lesley Jackson
2007 Whitworth Art Gallery: textiles in exhibition Trade and Empire: Remembering Slavery
2003 Athens (Ohio), Ohio University: My World of Colour: the international work and inspirations of a Black British Trinidadian textile designer
2000 London, Studio Gallery, Chelsea: new prints in group exhibition
1998 London, Fine Arts Society: group exhibition
1998 London, 198 Gallery: group exhibition
1998 London, Morley Gallery: Six into One: Artists from the Caribbean
1997 London, Hockney Gallery: Althea McNish, solo exhibition of paintings, hangings and works on paper
1997 New York, Caribbean Cultural Centre: Transforming the Crown: African, Asian and Caribbean Artists in Britain, 1966-1996
1997 London, Commonwealth Institute: Trinidad and Tobago Through the Eye of the Artist: from Cazabon to the new Millennium 1813-2000
1996 London, Islington Arts Factory: Caribbean Connection 2 - Island Pulse, five Caribbean-born artists
1987 New York: Surtex international exhibition of textile designers' work
1987 London, Victoria and Albert Museum: textiles in Ascher
1986 London, Henry Moore Gallery: textiles in Make or Break
1986 London, Victoria and Albert Museum: Designs for British Dress and Furnishing Fabrics
1983 Leicester, Magazine Workspace: solo exhibition of textile hangings
1982 London, Peoples Gallery: solo exhibition of textile hangings
1982 Brisbane, Australia: textile designs in Commonwealth Festival Art Exhibition
1981-82 Lille, France: Indigo international exhibition of textile designers' work
1981 Kilkenny: textile hangings
1978 London, Victoria and Albert Museum: textile designs in The Way We Live Now
1975 Jamaica: International Women Artists
1972-74 Amsterdam: Design-In exhibitions of British textile designers' work
1972 London, Swiss Cottage Library: textile hangings
1971 London, Commonwealth Institute: Caribbean Artists in England (Caribbean Artists Movement)
1969-80 London, Sweden, US: UK Design Council exhibitions of British textile designers' work
1968 London, Digby Stuart College: Caribbean Artists Movement
1968 London, London School of Economics: Caribbean Artists Movement
1968 London, House of Commons: Caribbean Artists Movement
1967 Theatre Royal, Stratford: Caribbean Artists Movement
1964-71 Manchester and London: Inprint exhibitions of British textile designers' work
1962 Port of Spain, Trinidad: Colour is Ours solo exhibition by invitation of Trinidad & Tobago Government on the occasion of the country's Independence
1961 London, Commonwealth Institute: Paintings by Trinidad and Tobago Artists
1959 Rome: paintings in group exhibition
1958 London, Woodstock Gallery: solo exhibition of paintings and works on paper
1950s London: paintings in Young Contemporaries
to 1950 Port of Spain, Trinidad: group and solo exhibitions with the Trinidad & Tobago Art Society
from 1968 With John Weiss: etched silver dishes in exhibitions of the Designer Jewellers Group (London, Barbican Centre and elsewhere) and the Society of Designer Craftsmen (London, Mall Galleries and elsewhere)
revised February 2009