For this issue of Kinfolk, we speak to Mac Collins, a British visual artist from Nottingham, whose work explores how narrative, diaspora and material culture shape a practice grounded in questions of value and inheritance. Reflecting on growing up in Nottingham, a city marked by Windrush histories and South Asian diasporas, Collins describes how regional identity and community have informed his understanding of design beyond metropolitan centres.
The conversation turns to his residency at Harewood House, where he examined the entanglements between furniture, empire and transatlantic slavery. Across the interview, Collins articulates a narrative-driven approach to craft, positioning material as both medium and message. Situated between conceptual inquiry and commercial production, his practice seeks a space where design operates as both cultural critique and everyday presence.
Read Mac Collins: Four questions for an emerging designer here.