It’s an opportunity for discussion and these things can also become a vessel for that kind of conversation.
Mac Collins
In The Radical Act of Respect, furniture designer Mac Collins reflects on what it’s like to visit and see Harewood House and the Caribbean communities that are linked to it.
As someone with dual heritage – half-Jamaican and half-English – ‘it’s not ridiculous to think that my own family, and my own direct lineage, may have been linked to the family here’.
As part of his exhibit for the Harewood Biennial, he will reflect the Caribbean communities of his home town in Nottingham against the backdrop of Edwin Lascelles, who amassed the fortune to build Harewood House from the sugar trade and the enslavement of African people.
The Harewood Biennial is generously supported by Arts Council England
What’s on
The Harewood Biennial returns in March 2022 with Radical Acts: Why Craft Matters. Following 2019’s Useful/Beautiful, curator Hugo Macdonald and the Harewood team have once again set to create a … Read more
Radical Acts
We’re not here to change the world of fashion. We’re here to create good jobs. In The Radical Act of Community, Patrick Grant, founder of Community Clothing, introduces the fashion and clothing … Read more
Radical Acts
We all have a responsibility to make sure the objects we are designing or creating have either a limited negative impact or, as we do, a positive impact on the earth. In The Radical Act of Environment, … Read more