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Althea McNish
for Hull Traders:
Golden Harvest
Painted Desert
Rubra

John Weiss:
Scroll crown
Pendant
Necklace and earrings

2013-14 forthcoming
• November 2013 - January 2014 (provisional), Barbican Centre, London: Winter exhibition of the Designer Jewellers Group.
• 10-19 January 2014 (provisional), Mall Galleries, London: Designer Crafts at the Mall 2013, the annual Winter Exhibition of the Society of Designer Craftsmen.
• 18 May 2014 (provisional), Tangier Island, Virginia, USA: celebration of bicentennial of the Corps of Colonial Marines.

2012-13
• 18 June 2013: at the Private View of the work of new MA graduates in Textiles at the Royal College of Art, Kezia Regan received the Althea McNish Colour Prize, first awarded in 2002, and Georgia Xanthe Dorey received the Pollie Weiss Colour Prize, awarded in memory of the late Pollie Weiss (1909-2007).
• 12 June - 4 July 2013, Barbican Centre, London: John Weiss is taking part in the Summer exhibition of the Designer Jewellers Group.
• 11-20 January 2013, Mall Galleries, London: John Weiss showed new work in Designer Crafts at the Mall 2013, the annual Winter Exhibition of the Society of Designer Craftsmen. The Pollie Weiss Colour Prize for a new Licentiate showing in the exhibition was awarded on 11 January to Zoë Hillyard.
• 8 November 2012 to 1 January 2013, Barbican Centre, London: John Weiss showed new work in the Winter Exhibition of the Designer Jewellers Group.
• 13 November 2012: Althea McNish gave an illustrated presentation in conversation with John Weiss, "My World of Colour", to the Soroptimist Club of Central and South West London.
• 8 September 2012: H.E. Garvin Nicholas, High Commissioner for the Republic of Trinidad and Tobago, presented Althea McNish with an award for Achievement in the Arts as part of the celebration of the 50th Anniversary of Independence of the Republic of Trinidad and Tobago, at a Gala Dinner and Awards Ceremony at the Royal Garden Hotel, London.
• 12-14 July 2012, London: John Weiss gave a paper "Cochrane and his Proclamation: liberator or scaremonger?" in the conference The War of 1812: Myth and Memory, History and Historiography: Institute for the Study of the Americas (London University), Canterbury Christ Church University and National Maritime Museum.
• 7-12 June 2012, Bermuda: "Averse to any kind of controul: American refugees from slavery in the workforce for the building of the new Royal Naval Dockyard", a paper by John Weiss, was presented at the conference Bermuda Dockyard and the War of 1812: Naval Dockyards Society and National Museum of Bermuda.
• 31 May - 21 June 2012, Barbican Centre, London: John Weiss showed new work in the Summer exhibition of the Designer Jewellers Group.
• 16 May 2012, Fashion and Textile Museum, London: Althea McNish and John Weiss took part in the Designing Women Post-war British Textiles Study Day.
• 24 March 2012, London: John Weiss gave an illustrated talk on "A Crown for the Tree of Life" at the Annual General Meeting of the Society of Designer Craftsmen
• 16 March - 16 June 2012, Fashion and Textile Museum, London: Althea McNish was featured in the exhibition Portraits: Women Designers from the University of Brighton Design Archives.
• 6-15 January 2012, Mall Galleries, London: John Weiss showed a new collection in Designer Crafts at the Mall 2012 , the annual exhibition of the Society of Designer Craftsmen. The Pollie Weiss Colour Prize for a new Licentiate showing in the exhibition was awarded on 6 January to Justyna Truchanowska.
• 9 November 2011 to 6 January 2012, Barbican Centre, London: John Weiss showed a new collection in the Winter exhibition of the Designer Jewellers Group.

PHOTOGRAPHS
Althea McNish by Derek Tamea; others by John Weiss.