Amazing Althea and her Allen Key

Anybody Everybody Tottenham

In this episode, I speak to Rose Sinclair the co-curator of the Althea McNish exhibitions that is currently on in nearby Walthamstow. It is the first time, many of us get to appreciate what an influential designer Althea was - someone who lived 50 years among us on West Green Road. Althea, originally from Trinidad moved to London in the late 1950s and became an incredibly successful textile designer. We talk about the breadth of her work, the context of her work and her love of Ikea Tottenham.
exhibition website: https://www.wmgallery.org.uk/whats-on/exhibitions-43/althea-mcnish-colour-is-mine/
Rose on Twitter: https://twitter.com/Dorcasstories
Rose's university page: https://www.gold.ac.uk/design/people/sinclair/
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Chapters

1. Amazing Althea and her Allen Key (00:00:00)

2. Exhibition beginnings (00:01:41)

3. Althea when first arriving in London (00:05:23)

4. Textiles in the 50s (00:07:38)

5. Dorcas Societies and community work (00:08:43)

6. Design education in schools (00:12:40)

7. Althea's significance (00:15:37)

8. Althea's connection to Tottenham (00:19:57)

9. Success of the Exhibition (00:21:21)

10. Trinidad (00:26:27)

11. Further reading (00:27:02)

12. Exhibition future (00:32:27)