White Gold 2010
Commissioned project to photograph the white marble quarries at Lasa in the Sud Tirol region of Northern Italy. These large scale photographs, taken on 10x8" format, capture the impact of the mining on the surrounding landscape.
Essay: by Skye Sherwin
Exhibition: The Photographers' Gallery at Stone Theatre, May 2011
Wet Deserts 2005 - 2012
Ongoing series of large scale colour photographs taken whilst driving around the overlooked scrublands and fringes of Western Ireland, Scotland and Wales. These are both formal studies of the quality of landscape and documents of environmental change.
Essay: by Skye Sherwin
Exhibition: The Photographers' Gallery at Stone Theatre, May 2011
Article: NextLevel Magazine, Oct 2009
Exhibition: The Royal Society of the Arts, Oct 2008
Garden 2009
Photographic competition commissioned by Christies of London in November 2009. Ten British photographers were briefed to photograph assigned historic gardens of Britain. Mike Perry photographed the gardens at Hodnet Hall in Shropshire, Parham House and Pashley Manor in Sussex.
Abereiddi 2004 - 2005
This series of large scale photographs were repeatedly taken from a specific location on the Pembrokeshire coastal path in Wales.They are intended as formal explorations which reference the techniques of painting rather than offer historical or sentimental readings of a specific place.
Review: by Craig Burnett, 2005
Exhibition: The Photographers' Gallery, Feb 2009
Article: Frankfurter Rundschau, Dec 2003
Astral America 2002
The Astral America project was a commission by Huntergather, along with artists Tom Hunter and Norbert Schoerner. The three artists were asked to revisit Jean Braudillard's road trip through America. "I went in search of Astral America, not social and cultural America, but the America of the empty, absolute freedom of the freeways', not the deep America of mores and mentalities, but the America of desert speed, of motels and mineral surfaces".
Review: by Tom Morton, 2004
Article: NextLevel Magazine, 2002
London Brownfields 2004 - 2007
In 2004, Mike was commissioned by Transition Gallery to Photograph in and around the E9 district of East London. His work took him into the decaying industrial parks of Stretford and Bow and along the yet to be regenerated Grand Union Canal and its backwaters. Many of the locations Mike photographed are now the site of the forthcoming Olympics.
Review: by Alex Michon, 2004
Exhibition: 'E9, An Anatomy of an Area', 2004
Inland 2003 - 2007
The Inland pictures were taken in the winter months in the west of Wales and Ireland. As in 'Beach' Perry explores the relationship between landscape photography and abstract painting. Whilst these are looser than the more formal beach compositions, they continue to portray a spirit of place without a traditional narrative. Avoiding the early morning and evening light and any dramatic contours in the landscape, Perry uses the flatter, neutral light and mundane perspectives to further lend to the work an overall air or melancholy, isolation and absence.
Beach 1-27 2002
Mike Perry's photographic series 'Beach' records seashore scenes from an unassuming stretch of England's South Coast. His focus lies apart from the romantic, metaphysical and realist traditions most associated with depiction of land and sea. Perry's fascination is with the actuality and understatement of his subject. Presented as a series 'Beach' establishes a rhythmic context in which repetition invites a meditative response.
Essay: by Craig Burnett
Front Cover: NextLevel Magazine, 2002
Article: Art Review Magazine, May 2004
Front Cover: Gaia Magazine, Sep 2009
Article: Greenpeace Magazine, 2009
Exhibition: The Photographers' Gallery, April 2004
