1930 London, Goupil Gallery. Decorative Work and Stage & other
Designs.
1931 London, Imperial Gallery of Art. The British School at Rome.
1931 London, New English Art Club. Winter Exhibition.
1931 London, Royal Academy.
1932 London, Imperial Gallery of Art. The British School at Rome.
1932 London, New English Art Club. Winter Exhibition.
1933 London, New Burlington Galleries. The British Empire Society of
Arts and the Society of Animal Painters Fourth Exhibition.
1933 London, Imperial Gallery of Art. The British School at Rome.
1933 Paris. Salon de la Societé Nationale.
1934 Weybridge, The Annual Exhibition of the Weybridge Society
of Arts.
1935 London, Whitechapel Art Gallery. Mural Decorative Paintings.
1935 London, The Royal Society of Artists. 183rd Exhibition.
1935 Dublin, Metropolitan School of Art. Royal Hibernian Academy of
Arts 106th Exhibition.
1937 London, New Burlington Galleries. The London Group, 36th
Exhibition.
1939 London, London Gallery. Living Art in England.
1939 London, Tate Gallery. Mural Painting in Great Britain 1919-1935.
An Exhibition of Photographs.
1939 London, Whitechapel Art Gallery. Works by Members of the Artists
International Association exhibited as a demonstration of the Unity
of Artists for Peace, Democracy and Cultural Development.
1939 London, Mayor Gallery. Joint exhibition with Roland Penrose.
1939 Northampton, Borough Art Gallery. Exhibition of British Surrealist
and Abstract Paintings.
1939 London, Peter Jones Gallery. Towards the Abstract.
1939 Oxford, The Ashmolean Museum. Younger British Painters.
1940 London, The Leicester Galleries. Summer Exhibition.
1940 London, Royal Academy of Arts. United Artists’ Exhibition in aid of
the Lord Mayor’s Red Cross and St John Fund and the Artists’
General Benevolent Institution.
1940 R.S.B.A. Artists International Exhibition.
1941 Harrogate, Harrogate Gallery. Exhibition of Paintings and Drawings.
Exhibition then moved to Batley, Bagshaw Art Gallery.
1941 London, Ministries of Shipping and Economic Warfare. Exhibition of
Modern Paintings Organised by the AIA.
1941 London, The Leicester Galleries. Artists of Fame and Promise:
Summer Exhibition.
1941 London, Whitechapel Art Gallery, Artists International Association
Exhibition.
1942 London, London Museum. New Movements in Art. Contemporary
Works in England: an Exhibition of Recent Paintings and Sculptures.
1942 Leicester, City Museum. New Movements in Art.
1942 London, Leicester Galleries. Artists of Fame and Promise:
Summer Exhibition.
1942 Bournemouth, Bournemouth Art Gallery. Exhibition of
Contemporary Tempera Paintings.
1942 London, The Leicester Galleries. Imaginative Art since the War.
1942 London, International Art Centre. Surrealist Exhibition.
1942 Travelling. Pictures to Live With: works by members of the AIA.
1943 London, Royal Academy of Arts. The Third United Artists’ Exhibition
in aid of the Duke of Gloucester’s Red Cross and St John Fund.
1943 London, Wallace Collection. Artists Aid China Exhibition.
1943 Merthyr Tydfil, Art Gallery and Museum. Selection from the Royal
Academy United Artists Exhibition.
1943 Eastbourne, Towner Art Gallery. Selection from the Royal Academy
United Artists Exhibition.
1945 Derby, City Art Gallery. Exhibition of Contemporary Art.
1945-6 London, Royal Academy. The London Group 1945 exhibition.
1945-6 London, Hampstead Arts Council. Hampstead Artists: Past and
Present.
1946 Bradford, Cartwright Hall. 53rd Spring Exhibition.
1946 London, Pall Mall. Painters Today at the AIA.
1946 Hampstead, Hampstead Artists' Council First Summer Exhibition.
1946 London, Redfern Gallery. Summer Exhibition.
1946 London, Leger Galleries. Exhibition of Watercolour Drawings by
Contemporary Artists.
1946 Hampstead, Hampstead Artists' Council Exhibition of Drawings.
1947 Hampstead, Hampstead Artists' Council First Spring Exhibition
1947 Paris, Parc des Expositions. Les Surindépendants 40th Exhibition.
1947 London, Redfern Gallery. Summer Exhibition.
1947 London, The Leicester Galleries. Artists of Fame and Promise:
Summer Exhibition.
1947 London, Leger Galleries. Valse des Fleurs.
1948 London, Redfern Gallery. Summer Exhibition.
1948 Dublin, National College of Art. Irish Exhibition of Living Art.
1948 Bradford, Cartwright Hall. 55th Spring Exhibition.
1949 London, Whitechapel Art Gallery. Pictures for Schools.
1949 London, Redfern Gallery. Artists of Fame and Promise II.
1949 London, Gimpel Fils. Summer Exhibition.
1949 London, AIA Gallery. Contemporary Graphic Art.
1949 London, AIA Gallery. Small Pictures.
1950 London, RBA Galleries. Women’s International Art Club Jubilee
Exhibition.
1950 London, Wildenstein Gallery. Scenes de Ballet.
1950 Bradford, Cartwright Hall. 57th Spring Exhibition.
1950 Arts Council Travelling Exhibition. Society of Mural Painters: First
Exhibition. The exhibition opened at the New Burlington Galleries,
London, and later transferred to Brighton; Wednesbury;
Plymouth; Hull; Sheffield; Newcastle; Lincoln; Manchester; Luton
and elsewhere.
1950 London, The Odeon, Swill Cottage. The ''Hampstead News''
festival of Hampstead Art.
1950 Mousehole, Arra Gallery. Exhibition of Paintings by Lamorna Artists.
1950 Penzance, Penlee Gallery. Summer Exhibition.
1950 The Arts Council of Great Britain. Paintings by British Women: A
selection from the Annual Exhibition of the WIAC.
1950 St Ives, Penwith Gallery. Spring Exhibition by the Penwith Society
of Arts.
1950 Touring Exhibition The Scottish Scene: an Exhibition of Designs for
a Painted Wall Panel. London, and various venues in Scotland.
?1951 Holland. Held under the auspicies of the Nationale Vrouwenraad
van Nederland. Britse en Nederlandse Vrouwen Exposeren.
1951 London, RBA Galleries. The WIAC 'Festival of Britain’ exhibition.
1951 London, New Burlington Galleries. London Group Exhibition.
1951 London, AIA Gallery. AIA Paintings for Hiro Exhibition.
1951-2 Touring. Paintings by British Women: A selection from the Annual
Exhibition of the WIAC. Annfield Plain, Durham, then at Sunderland,
Scarborough, Luton and Halifax.
1952 Bradford, Cartwright Hall. 59th Spring Exhibition.
1952 London, Royal Academy of Arts. The 184th Eexhibition.
1952 London, RBA Galleries. The WIAC Annual Exhibition.
1952 London, New Burlington Galleries. The Mirror and the Square.
1953 London. New Burlington Galleries. Women's International Art Club
Annual Exhibition.
1953 London, Contemporary Art Society. Figures in their Setting.
1953 Bradford, Cartwright Hall. Sixtieth Spring Exhibition.
1953 London, Royal Institute of British Architects. The 2nd exhibition of
the Society of Mural Painters.
c.1953 London, Crane Gallery. Scenes de Ballet.
1954 London, South London Art Gallery. Exhibition of Mural Paintings by
the Society of Mural Painters.
1954 London, New Burlington Galleries. The WIAC Annual Exhibition.
1954 Touring exhibition organised by the AIA. The Mirror and the Square.
1954 Bradford, Cartwright Hall. Golden Jubilee Exhibition.
1955 Bradford, Cartwright Hall. 62nd Spring Exhibition.
1955 Penzance, Passmore Edwards Art Gallery. Newlyn Society of Artists
Summer Exhibition.
1956 London, Chenil Galleries. Women’s International Art Club Annual
Exhibition.
1957 London, Whitechapel Gallery. Women’s International Art Club
Annual Exhibition.
1958 Hull, Ferens Art Gallery. Some Contemporary Women Painters.
1959 Brussels, Galerie de la Medleine. Fantasmagie.
1959 St Ives Penwith Society of Arts. 10th Anniversary Exhibition.
1959 Antwerp, Hessenhuis Antwerpen. Internationale Tentoonstellung
van Collages.
1960 London, Hampstead Town Hall. Hampstead Artists 1900-1960.
1960 Penzance, Passmore Edwards Art Gallery. Newlyn Society of
Artists Spring Exhibition.
1961 Penzance, Newlyn Art Gallery. Summer Exhibition 1 of the Newlyn
Society of Artists.
1962 Liege, Galerie d'Art Jean Dols. Exposition Internationale
Fantasmagie.
1962 Paris, Galerie Soulanges. Exposition Internationale 'Fantasmagie'.
c1963 London, Royal Watercolour Society Galleries. Cornish Experiment.
1963 London, FBA Galleries. Women’s International Art Club Annual
Exhibition.
1963 Ostend. Cultural Centre. Artists from Newlyn.
1964 London, FBA Galleries. Women’s International Art Club Annual
Exhibition.
1964 Great Yarmouth. Women’s International Art Club Exhibition.
1965 London, FBA Galleries. Women’s International Art Club Annual
Exhibition.
1966 London, Whitechapel Gallery. Women’s International Art Club
Annual Exhibition.
1967 Penzance, Newlyn Art Gallery. Newlyn Society of Artists Spring
Exhibition.
1967 Paris, Galerie Creuze. WIAC Exhibition.
1967 Penzance, Newlyn Art Gallery. Newlyn Society of Artists Summer
Exhibition.
1967 Penzance, Newlyn Art Gallery. Newlyn Society of Artists Autumn
Exhibition.
1967 St Ives, Penwith Society of Arts Associate Exhibition.
1967-8 Czechoslovakia (Touring) Poesie Fantasmagie.
1968 St Ives, Penwith Society of Arts Associate Exhibition.
1968 London, Drian Galleries. Women’s International Art Club Annual
Exhibition.
1968 Wycombe End, Cross-Keys Gallery. WIAC Exhibition.
1968 Penzance, Passmore Edwards Gallery. Newlyn Society of Artists
Autumn Exhibition.
1969 West Berlin and Apeldoorn (Holland). Fantasmagie International
Exhibition.
1969 Halesworth, Suffolk. Halesworth Gallery. Women’sInternational Art
Club Annual Exhibition.
1969 Penzance, Passmore Edwards Gallery. Newlyn Society of Artists
Summer Exhibition.
1969 Penzance, Passmore Edwards Gallery. Newlyn Society of Artists
Autumn Exhibition.
1970 Penzance, Passmore Edwards Gallery. Newlyn Society of Artists
Autumn Exhibition.
1971 Penzance, Passmore Edwards Gallery. Newlyn Society of Artists
Summer Exhibition.
1971 Penzance, Passmore Edwards Gallery. Newlyn Society of Artists
Autumn Exhibition.
1971 London, Hamet Gallery. Britain's Contribution to Surrealism.
1972 Penzance, Passmore Edwards Gallery. Newlyn Society of Artists
Spring Exhibition.
1972 London, Gallery Edward Harvane On the Edge of Dreams. Aspects
of Surrealism in British Art 1932-71.
1972 Plymouth, Museum and Art Gallery. Newlyn Past and Present.
1972 Penzance, Newlyn Art Gallery. Newlyn Society of Artists
Autumn Exhibition.
1972 Birmingham, the University. Artists of Cornwall.
1973 Cornwall. 7th Exhibition of Arts & Crafts held by the St Just &
Lands End Branch of the Cancer Research Campaign.
1973 Penzance, Newlyn Art Gallery. Newlyn Society of Artists
Spring Exhibition.
1973 Penzance, Newlyn Art Gallery. Newlyn Society of Artists
Summer Exhibition.
1974 Penzance, Newlyn Art Gallery. Newlyn Society of Artists
Summer 1 Exhibition.
1974 Penzance, Newlyn Art Gallery. Newlyn Society of Artists
Summer 2 Exhibition.
1974 Penzance, Newlyn Art Gallery. Newlyn Society of Artists
Autumn Exhibition.
1974 London, Drian Galleries. The Feminine Eye.
1974-5 London, Camden Arts Centre. Hampstead in the Thirties: A
Committed Decade.
1975 Bath, The Little Gallery.
1975 Mousehole, St Clement's Hall Gallery. Spring and Summer
Exhibition.
1975 Plymouth Art Centre.
1975 Bath, The Little Gallery.
1975 Newlyn, Newlyn Art Gallery. Newlyn Society of Artists Spring
Exhibition.
1975 Newlyn, Newlyn Art Gallery, Newlyn Society of Artists Summer
Show.
1975 Newlyn, Newlyn Art Gallery. Newlyn Society of Artists Autumn
Exhibition.
1975 Newlyn, Newlyn Art Gallery, Newlyn Society of Artists Christmas
Exhibition.
1976 Mousehole, St Clement's Hall Gallery. Spring Exhibition.
1977 London, New Art Centre. Cornwall, 1945-55.
1977-8 Newlyn, Newlyn Art Gallery. Christmas Exhibition:Small is Beautiful.
1978 London, Hayward Gallery. Dada and Surrealism Reviewed.
1978 Newlyn, Newlyn Art Gallery. Newlyn Society of Artists Spring
Exhibition.
1978 London, Parkin Gallery. British Art 1890-1940.
1978 London, Parkin Gallery. Summer Exhibition.
1978 Newlyn, Newlyn Art Gallery. Newlyn Society of Artists Summer
Exhibition.
1978 Pont-Aven, Hotel de Ville. La Societe des Peintres de Newlyn de
Cornovailles.
1978 Penzance, West Cornwall Arts Centre. Surrealist Dream and
Phantasy.
1978-9 Newlyn, Newlyn Art Gallery. Christmas Exhibition: Small is
Beautiful.
1980 Newlyn, Newlyn Art Gallery. First Day Covers.
1980 London, Piccadilly Gallery. Some Unusual By-ways in British Art
1890-1940.
1980 Newlyn, Newlyn Art Gallery. Newlyn Society of Artists Summer
Exhibition.
1980 Milan, Palazzo Peale. L’Altra meta dell’Avanguardia 1910-1940.
Exhibition later transferred to Rome and Stockholm.
1981 London, Fine Art Society. Twentieth Century Pictures from the
Government Art Collection.
1982 Nottingham, Castle Museum. The Women’s Art Show 1550-1970.
1982 Paris, Galerie 1900-2000, Les Enfants d’Alice: la Peinture
Surrealiste Anglaise 1939-1960.
1982 Newlyn, Newlyn Art Gallery. Newlyn Society of Artists Summer
Exhibition.
1985 London, Parkin Gallery. Cornwall.
1985 Colchester, The Minories. A Salute to British Surrealism 1930-1950.
Exhibition later transferred to London and Hull.
1985 London, Blond Fine Art. British Women Surrealists.
1985 Scottish Arts Council,. One City a Patron. British Art of the 20th
Century from the Collections of the Southampton Art Gallery.
Touring Glasgow, Perth, Ayr, Edinburgh.
1986 Canterbury, The Herbert Read Gallery. Surrealism in England 1936
and after. Exhibition later transferred to Cardiff and Newcastle.
1986 Marseilles, France. Galerie dea Vieille Charitée. La Planéte Affolée.
1986 Leeds, City Art Gallery. Angels of Anarchy and Machines for Making
Clouds. Surrealism in Britain in the Thirties.
1986 London, Mayor Gallery. British Surrealism 50 years on.
1986-7 Swansea, Glyn Vivian Art Gallery. Contrariwise:Surrealism and
Britain 1930-1986. Exhibition later transferred to Bath, Newcastle,
and Llandudno.
1987 Arts Council Travelling Exhibition. Looking into Paintings. Exhibition
shown in Nottingham, Gateshead, Bradford and Plymouth.
1988 London, Whitford and Hughes. The Surrealist Spirit in Britain.
Post Mortem
The following exhibitions, curated since the artists death, have included works by Colquhoun. The list is not exhaustive.
1989 London, Blond Fine Art.
1990 University Art Museum, University of California at Berkeley. Anxious
Visions.
1993 Canberra, Australia, The National Gallery of Australia. Surrealism:
Revolution by Night. Exhibition later transferred to Queensland Art
Gallery, Brisbane and the Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sidney.
1995 Wolverhampton, Art Gallery and Museum. Real Surreal: British and
European Surrealism.
1999 Leeds, City Art Gallery.
1999 London, Tate Gallery. Portraits of the Artist.
2000 St Ives, Cornwall, Tate Gallery. Rediscovering Writing: St Ives
and Painters in Literature, 1945-70.
2000-2001 Jerusalem, the Israel Museum. Dreaming with Open Eyes. The
Vera, Silvia and Arturo Schwartz Collection of Dada and Surrealist
Art in the Israel Museum. Exhibition later transferred to California,
Fine Art Museum of San Fransisco and Toronto, Art Gallery of
Toronto.
2001-21002 London, National Portrait Gallery. Mirror Mirror. Self-portraits
by Women Artists.
2002-2003 Wolfsburg, Kunstmuseum. Blast to Freeze.
2003 London, Wolseley Fine Art Ltd. The Etching Revival in Britain
1850-1950.
2005 Newcastle upon Tyne, University of Northumbria Art Gallery. Face
to Face. British Self-Portraits in the Twentieth Century.
2006 London, Liss Fine Art. British Paintings and Works on Paper
1890-1990.
2006 London, Maas Gallery, 7th-30th June. British Pictures.
2007 London, Fine Art Society, 19th Sept–11th Oct. The Twentieth
Century.
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