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Althea McNish

Althea McNish CM FSCD (bɛ daa dɔɣi o la silimiin goli May biɛɣ'pinaanu dali yuuni 1924 ka daa kpi silimiin goli April biɛɣ'pinaayobu dali yuuni 2020) daa nyɛla nucheeni baŋda ŋun yina Trinidad ŋun daa leei tuuli Black British textile designer.[1]

Althea McNish
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Bɛ daa dɔɣi o la Trinidad, McNish ka daa labi Britain yuuni 1950s. O nyɛla ŋun daa be Caribbean Artists Movement (CAM) yuuni 1960s,[2] ka nyɛ ŋun daa niŋdi CAM's exhibitions din yɛn kpaŋsi Caribbean nucheeni baŋsim.[3] O tumanima nyɛla din be Victoria and Albert Museum, the Whitworth Museum, Philadelphia Museum of Art, Museum of Domestic Design and Architecture n-ti pahi Cooper-Hewitt (Smithsonian Design Museum).[4][5][6][7]

McNish nyɛla ŋun daa be Chartered Society of Designers.[8] O nyɛla ŋun daa kuli John Weiss (1933–2018).[9]

Selected exhibitions

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Solo exhibitions[10]
  • 1958: Althea McNish. Woodstock Gallery, London.
  • 1982: Althea McNish. People's Gallery, London.
  • 1997: Althea McNish. Hockney Gallery, Royal College of Art, London.
  • 2003: Althea McNish: My World of Colour: The international work and inspirations of a Black British Trinidadian textile designer. Ohio University, Athens, USA.
  • 2022: Althea McNish: Colour is Mine. William Morris Gallery, London.
  • 2023: Althea McNish: Colour is Mine. University of Manchester, Whitworth Art Gallery, Manchester.
Group exhibitions[10]
  • 1961: Paintings by Trinidad and Tobago Artists. Commonwealth Institute, London.
  • 1967: Caribbean Artists Movement. Theatre Royal, Stratford.
  • 1968: Caribbean Artists Movement. Digby Stuart College, House of Commons of the United Kingdom and London School of Economics, London.
  • 1971: Caribbean Artists in England. Commonwealth Institute, London.
  • 1975: Caribbean Women Artists Exhibition. Olympia International Arts Centre, Kingston, Jamaica.
  • 1978: Afro-Caribbean Art. Artists Market, London, organised by Drum Arts Centre.[11]
  • 1978: The Way We Live Now. Victoria & Albert Museum, London.
  • 1981: INDIGO '81 International Exhibition. Indigo, Lille, France.
  • 1982: Commonwealth Festival Exhibition. Brisbane, Australia.
  • 1986: Make or Break. Henry Moore Gallery, London.
  • 1996: Caribbean Connection 2: Island Pulse. Islington Arts Factory, London.
  • 1997: Transforming the Crown: African, Asian & Caribbean Artists in Britain, 1966–1996. Caribbean Cultural Center, Studio Museum in Harlem, and Bronx Museum of the Arts, New York.
  • 1997: Trinidad and Tobago Through the Eye of the Artist: From Cazabon to the New Millennium 1813–2000. Commonwealth Institute, London. Exhibition in celebration of the 35th anniversary of independence of the Republic of Trinidad and Tobago.
  • 1998: Six into One: Artists from the Caribbean. Morley Gallery, London.
  • 2007: Trade and Empire: Remembering Slavery. Whitworth Art Gallery, University of Manchester, Manchester.[12][13][14]
  • 2011: RCA Black. Royal College of Art, London.[15]
  • 2019: Get Up, Stand Up Now. Somerset House, London.[16]

Awards and accolades

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  • 1976: Chaconia Medal (Gold), Republic of Trinidad and Tobago, "for long and meritorious service to art and design"[17]
  • 1988: Scarlet Ibis Award, Trinidad and Tobago High Commission, London[18]
  • 2006: Honorary Doctor of Fine Art, University of Trinidad and Tobago[19][18]
  • 2008: Journalist Angela Cobbinah described her as "immediately influential, helping to establish new furnishing trends as well as inspire more adventurous fashion designers further down the line like Zandra Rhodes."[20]
  • 2012: Jubilee Gala Award for Achievement in the Arts at the UK High Commission of Trinidad and Tobago, celebrating the 50th anniversary of independence.[18][21]

Kundivihira

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  1. ↑ A chirim ya: Invalid <ref> tag; no text was provided for refs named HTC
  2. ↑ A chirim ya: Invalid <ref> tag; no text was provided for refs named WIIiB
  3. ↑ A chirim ya: Invalid <ref> tag; no text was provided for refs named Whitworth
  4. ↑ "Art notes (review)", AJR, October 2011 Journal.
  5. ↑ "Sample (England), 1962", Cooper Hewitt.
  6. ↑ "Printed Textile 'Caribe'", Philadelphia Museum of Art.
  7. ↑ You searched for McNish. Middlesex University. Retrieved 26 February 2020.
  8. ↑ A chirim ya: Invalid <ref> tag; no text was provided for refs named UoB
  9. ↑ Tessler, Gloria (13 December 2018), "Obituary: John Saul Weiss", Jewish Chronicle.
  10. ↑ 10.0 10.1 Althea McNish Bibliography and Exhibitions, AAVAD.
  11. ↑ "Afro-Caribbean Art catalogue" Archived 2022-06-03 at the Wayback Machine, Drum Arts Centre, London, 1978. Diaspora Artists.
  12. ↑ "Legacies: Commemorating the bicentenary of British abolition: Trade and Empire: Remembering Slavery at The Whitworth Art Gallery", Revealing Histories.
  13. ↑ "Trade and Empire: Remembering Slavery", a-n The Artists Information Company, 11 January 2008.
  14. ↑ Rice, Alan (2011). Creating Memorials, Building Identities: The Politics of Memory in the Black Atlantic. Liverpool University Press.
  15. ↑ "RCA Black" Archived 2021-05-20 at the Wayback Machine, Royal College of Art, 25 August 2011.
  16. ↑ Grant, Colin (2019-06-02). "Get Up, Stand Up Now: Black British art's response to the Windrush scandal" (en-GB). The Guardian. https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2019/jun/02/get-up-stand-up-now-zak-ove-black-british-art.
  17. ↑ National Awards Database.
  18. ↑ 18.0 18.1 18.2 Independence Arts Achievement award for Althea (8 September 2012). Retrieved 9 March 2016.
  19. ↑ Doughty, Melissa (5 December 2016), "Colouring the world How textile expert changed world view", Trinidad and Tobago Newsday. Reprinted with added photographs at Repeating Islands, 7 December 2016.
  20. ↑ A chirim ya: Invalid <ref> tag; no text was provided for refs named BH
  21. ↑ A chirim ya: Invalid <ref> tag; no text was provided for refs named GTT

Further reading

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  • Roxy Harris and Sarah White (eds), Building Britannia: Life Experience With Britain: Dennis Bovell, Athea McNish, Gus John, Rev. Wilfred Wood, Aggrey Burke, Yvonne Brewster, Alexis Rennie, New Beacon Books, 2009, ISBN 9781873201169.
  • Christine Checinska (2009), "Althea McNish and the British-African Diaspora", Chapter 3 in Anne Massey, Alex Seago (eds), Pop Art and Design, Bloomsbury Publishing, pp. 73–81.
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