2022
NECKLACE OF STARS: Tour to Derbyshire museums, and libraries
2021
HERE COMES THE SUN: Tour including Bury Art Museum and Festival of Quilts, NEC
INSIGHTS: Textile Study group: Festival of Quilts, NEC
BOOK OF OURS: Manchester Cathedral
2019
WAR WIDOWS’ STORIES Tour including:
The Queens House, Royal Museums Greenwich
2017
SING ME TO SLEEP Manchester Central Library Bury Art Museum
National Gallery of Art Vilnius, Lithuania
STITCHING THE WARS Derbyshire Records Office Buxton Museum and Art Gallery
THE HOMELESS LIBRARY Manchester Central Library
2016
STITCHING THE WARS Derbyshire Libraries
National Trust’s Lyme Park Cheshire
SING ME TO SLEEP National Gallery of Art, Vilnius, Lithuania
THE HOMELESS LIBRARY Royal Festival Hall, Southbank, London
The Houses of Parliament, London
2013
THE WARM /&/ THE COLD Holden Gallery, Manchester
Summerhall Edinburgh
2007-2012
FOUR ACRE Various locations across St Helens
A MAP OF YOU Text Festival Bury, BBC Online, Media City UK, Bury Transport Museum, BBC Big Screen
PATIENCE Buxton Museum and Art Gallery
KINDNESS Piccadilly Station Manchester, BBC Big Screens Manchester
1991-2007
Between 1991-2007, Lois exhibited at over 50 galleries including: The Royal British Academy Edinburgh, Smiths Gallery London, The Business Design Centre London, The Castle Gallery Inverness, The Royal Exchange Manchester, Castlefield Gallery Manchester, Bluecoat Liverpool and Chelsea Craft Fair. She had a open studio at Manchester Craft and Design Centre.
Lois Blackburn 