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Look What I Found with Mac Collins
Material memory, ritual making, and new myths from the V&A collections
During this micro-residency at V&A East Storehouse, British visual artist Mac Collins explores the museum’s collections in search of objects, materials and stories that resonate with his sculptural practice.
Collins creates allegorical sculptures and installations from resistant materials including wood, welded steel, cast aluminium and glass. Emerging from a design background, his work is shaped by a strong interest in materiality and tactility, often developed through repetitive and ritualistic making processes that produce symmetrical and systematic compositions.
Working within the open storage environment of Storehouse, Collins investigates objects connected to domestic rituals, oral histories and everyday cultural behaviours. Drawing on references that range from household artefacts to Jamaican dominoes culture and shared psychological phenomena, his work explores distorted memory, shifting perspectives and the formation of contemporary mythologies.
Look What I Found offers a glimpse into this process of discovery, highlighting the objects that have sparked new lines of thinking in Collins’ research at the Storehouse.
Collins creates allegorical sculptures and installations from resistant materials including wood, welded steel, cast aluminium and glass. Emerging from a design background, his work is shaped by a strong interest in materiality and tactility, often developed through repetitive and ritualistic making processes that produce symmetrical and systematic compositions.
Working within the open storage environment of Storehouse, Collins investigates objects connected to domestic rituals, oral histories and everyday cultural behaviours. Drawing on references that range from household artefacts to Jamaican dominoes culture and shared psychological phenomena, his work explores distorted memory, shifting perspectives and the formation of contemporary mythologies.
Look What I Found offers a glimpse into this process of discovery, highlighting the objects that have sparked new lines of thinking in Collins’ research at the Storehouse.
