The Front Room: Diaspora Migrant Aesthetics in the Home

Michael McMillan is a writer, playwright, artist/curator, and scholar of Vincentian parentage. He guest curated the critically acclaimed The West Indian Front Room exhibition at the Geffrye Museum (2005-06), which was also iterated in Tate Britain's Life Between Islands (2021-22) and is now a permanent 1970s period room at the Museum of the Home (formerly the Geffrye Museum). He was also chief consultant on the popular BBC4 documentary Tales from the Front Room (2007). He has written books, plays, and articles on arts and culture, and teaches at the University of the Arts London.