about

I am an artist and screenprinter creating deeply layered, colour saturated, slow motion screen prints.

The image generation is a slow process of experimentation, of trial and error; collecting imagery, developing patterns and overlaying all the different elements until new and intriguing relationships emerge. The results are brightly lit beacons of balearic zen shining out amidst a visual, digital landscape that is in constant upheaval, upgraded and updated daily.

The act of printing is physical and repetitive and this repetition grounds me in the now, the analogue nature of this process delivers a physical and metaphorical date-stamp. The act of making art is as vital as ever, for me it is a quest to stop time itself – even if for just one brief moment.

My work borrows language from other art forms, film and photography, poetry, electronic music and rave culture – amalgamating, mixing and remixing, offering up familiar signs and signifiers but now refracted and reflected, illusive and allusive, all lightly seasoned with a slightly understated degree of subversion. Layers of fragmented iconography and geometry coalesce on the paper, like motes of dust trapped in a beam of light teasing us with a cheeky glimpse of a much bigger gestalt.

The resulting collection is a series of paeans to pigment, a psychedelic hallelujah to the handmade and handprinted, colour and tone poems that are a tiny bit joyful.

Iain Perry



Photography of artists and studio by Luke Richardson Photography

Stockists
Seventh Circle
Unlimited
Makers Bristol
Mostyn Gallery
Unit Twelve


Publications
Contemporary Collage Magazine - Awards Brochure 2023
The String - Original writing and art that inhabits modern technology- Summer 2022
Plastikcomb PCM2 Summer 2021
Contemporary Collage Magazine - Issue 3
Pressing Matters Issue 04
Dive Issue 2 - 2018



Awards

Develop Your Own Creative Practice - Arts Council England - 2023 - Just What Is It That You Want To Do?

Exhibitions

Great Print Exhibition 9 
Rheged Gallery
Feb - March 2024

Sheffield Print Fair
Millenium Gallery
11th November 2023

Mixtapes and Mirrorballs
Seventh Circle
November 2023

Pulling Power 3
Unlimited, Brighton
Oct - Nov 2023

Craft Festival: Cheltenham
City Hall, Cheltenham
26-27th November 2022
https://www.craftfestival.co.uk/cheltenham

“Just What Is It That You Want To Do?”
Solo show, Seventh Circle, Birmingham
28th Oct - 10th November 2022
https://www.svnthcrcl.com/original-artworks/iain-perry

Great Northern Contemporary Craft Fair
Victoria Baths, Manchester
13-16th October 2022
https://www.greatnorthernevents.co.uk/homepage-gnccf.aspx

Pulling Power II
Unlimited, Brighton
14th October - 6th November 2022
https://unlimitedshop.co.uk/

Cheshire Print Fair
Chester
25th September 2022
https://cheshireprintfair.com/

Cheshire Print Fair
Chester
9th April 2022
https://cheshireprintfair.com/

Craft Festival: Cheltenham
City Hall, Cheltenham
11 - 13th March 2022
https://www.craftfestival.co.uk/cheltenham

Great Northern Contemporary Craft Fair
Victoria Baths, Manchester
8-10th October 2021
https://www.greatnorthernevents.co.uk/homepage-gnccf.aspx

Pulling Power
Unlimited, Brighton
15th October - 7th November 2021
https://unlimitedshop.co.uk/

Art&York Online
22-24th October 2021
https://www.artand.co.uk/visitors/

Woolwich Contemporary Print Fair
Woolwich Works, London
11-14th November 2021
(Online edition 11-28th November)
https://www.woolwichprintfair.com/

Selected Previous Shows

Craft Festival: Cardiff
City Hall, Cardiff
1 - 3 November 2019
www.craftfestival.co.uk/Cardiff/

Ink and Print + Paper
Guildhall, Cambridge
16-17 November 2019
www.inkandpaperandprint.co.uk

Great Northern Contemporary Craft Fair
Upper Campfield Market
Manchester
11-13 October 2019

The Hepworth Wakefield Print Fair
Hepworth Gallery, Wakefield
2 - 4 Mar 2018
hepworthwakefield.org/whats-on/print-fair/

Made By Hand, Cheltenham
Cheltenham Town Hall
10-11 March 2018
madebyhandengland.org.uk/

North Wales Print Fair
Mostyn Gallery, Llandudno
11 November 2017

Made by Hand Wales
Cardiff City Hall
3 - 5th November 2017

Great Northern Contemporary Craft Fair
12 - 15 October 2017

Jealous Needs You
Jealous East, 53 Curtain Road, EC2A 3PT
2nd - 20th November 2016,
The Saatchi Gallery
5th January – 16th February 2017.
Jealous North
22nd February - 19th March 2017

Pixels, Poetry and Pop Culture
MOSTYN, 12 Vaughan Street, Llandudno, LL30 1AB, Wales
22 October - 29 January 2017

Christmas Craft & Contemporary Print
Shire Hall Gallery, Market Square, Stafford, ST16 5 November - 8 January 2017

Small Print International, (touring show),
7th May – 10th July 2016 Attenborough Arts, Leicester, LE1 7HA
2nd September – 30th October 2016 The Biscuit Factory, Stoddart Street, Newcastle Upon Tyne, NE2 1AN In partnership with Northern Print
7th January – 12th February 2017 Gallerytop, Chatsworth Road, Rowsley, Derbyshire, DE4 2EH
18th February – 15th April 2017 West Yorkshire Print Workshop, Mirfield, WF14 8AT
23rd April – 21st May 2017 London Print Studio, London, W10 4RE
31st May – 31st July 2017 Alfred East Gallery, Kettering, NN15 7QX

Made By Hand Wales, 28 - 30th October 2016, City Hall Cardiff
Great Northern Contemporary Craft Fair, 6-9th October 2016, Old Granada Studios, Manchester.
Craft Goes Pop, 11th June - 3rd September 2016, Wolverhampton Art Gallery.

The Contemporary Craft Festival, 10-12 June 2016, Bovey Tracey.
Waterside Open, Waterside Arts Centre, Sale, 2nd April - 2nd July 2016
Craft Goes Pop, Bluecoat Display Centre, Liverpool
24th January - 7th March 2015
Prints for Christmas, Shire Hall Gallery, Stafford
15 November – 4 January 2015.
Hauntology, Pigeon, Burton on Trent
31st Oct - 14th Nov 2014
Made By Hand Wales 2014, Cardiff, 31st Oct - 2 Nov 2014
Are you listening carefully? Touring Exhibition,
1 Feb - 30 Mar 2014,Brampton Museum Newcastle-under-lyme
3rd May - 21st June 2014 (PV- 2nd May 7-9pm), Foxlowe Arts Centre
16th Aug - 11th Oct 2014, The Brindley
21st Century Farmer, 5 Sept - 30 Nov 2013, Unit Twelve Gallery, Stafford
Little Northern Contemporary Craft Fair, 7 July 2013, Macclesfield
Blog and Buy Sale Summer Wish List, 23 June - 4 August 2013
Contemporary Craft Fair, 7-9 June 2013, Bovey Tracey
Made by Hand Wales 2012 Tredegar House, Newport, Wales 30 Nov - 2 Dec 2012 DoeDeMee - 100 Book Covers to Fight Illiteracy, Antwerp, Sept 2012
Story Telling, Foxlowe Arts Centre, Leek Sept 2012
Found, Unit Twelve, Stafford, 2nd Aug - 27th Oct 2012
Paper - 1st Anniversary show, Unit Twelve, Stafford, May 2011
Yours Sincerely, Unit Twelve, Stafford Jun 2010
Broken Toys: Solo Show, Brampton Museum and Art Gallery, Newcastle-u-Lyme,
Apr - May 2009
The Big Draw, Platform Gallery, Clitheroe 11 Oct 08
Craft for Kids, Shire Hall, Stafford 13 Sept – 2 Nov 08
Something Old, Something New, The Arthouse, Westbourne 9 May – 7 June 08
British Craft Trade Fair, Harrogate Race Course, 6-8 April 2008
Manchester Craft Mafia, Urbis, Manchester 1 and 2 Dec 2007
Festive Flair Craft Show, The Light-house Media Centre, Wolverhampton,
17 Nov 2007
Manchester Craft Mafia, Urbis, Manchester, 3 and 4 Nov 2007
At your convenience, Madam Lillies, Stoke Newington 1 – 18 Mar 07
FLAIR, Belfast, Northern Ireland 25-26 Nov 06
N.A.M.E. New Artists and Makers Emporium, Coventry 27 –29 Oct 06
Design Edge, Esher, Surrey 17 – 19 Sep 06
Craft for Men, The Shire Hall, Stafford Mar – Apr 06
Animal Train, Glastonbury Festival Jun 05
Body Pop, Gainsborough Works, Stafford Apr 05
The Space Between Work and Sleep, Borough Museum and Art Gallery
Newcastle-Under-Lyme Feb 05
All Of My Friends Are Artists Too, 20 –21 Visual Arts Centre, Scunthorpe Sep 04
Moving Titles, Stephanie’s Confiserie, Stafford Aug 04
International Surrealism Show, Brighton Artists Gallery Jul – Aug 04