Mtro. Michael McMillan
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Mtro. Michael McMillan
Michael McMillan is a writer, playwright, artist/curator and academic of Vincentian migrant heritage, who lives in London. His plays and performance pieces have been produced at the Royal Court Theatre, Old Vic Theatre, Kings Head Theatre, Lyric Theatre Hammersmith, Hackney Empire, and on broadcast on Channel 4, BBC 4 Radio Drama, as well as numerous UK theatres. His recent one woman show, Waiting for myself to appear was performed at the Geffrye Museum (2019) and is now the basis of a film installation to be screened in 2020.
His curatorial work includes the The West Indian Front Room, which the the Geffrye Museum's most successful exhibition (2005-06), and led to numerous international iterations in The Netherlands, Curacao, South Africa and France, inspired the BBC4 documentary Tales from the Front Room (2007), and the book, The Front Room: Migrant Aesthetics in the Home (Black Dog 2009). The Front Room is also the basis of his Arts Doctorate, the first at Middlesex University (2010).
Other installation-based exhibitions include: The Beauty Shop (2008), The Waiting Room (2012), I Miss My Mum's Cooking (2012), My Hair: Black Hair Culture, Style (Origins of the Afro Comb) (2013), No Colour Bar: Black British Art in Action 1960-1990 (2015-16), Doing Nothing is Not an Option (2015), Rockers, Soulheads & Lovers: Sound Systems back in da Day (2015-16) and The House That Was My Home (2016-17).
Emerging from various artist/writer residencies, authored publications include: Living Proof: Views of a World living with HIV/AIDS (1992), The Black Boy Pub & Other Stories: the black experience in High Wycombe (1997), If I Could Fly: An anthology of writings from young men at Orchard Lodge Resource Centre (1998), Growing Up Is Hard To Do: A Book For Young People & Adults About Sexual Health (2000) and The Waiting Room: An audio-visual tale of an artist in residence at the Alaw Ward (2012).
As an academic, his articles have been published in numerous journals and publications, as well as presented papers at conferences and symposiums across the UK, Europe, Canada, USA, Caribbean and Brazil. He is currently an Associate Lecturer in Cultural & Histories at London College of Fashion, University of the Arts London, and is a Research Associate at the Visual Identities in Art & Design Research (VIAD) at the University of Johannesburg.