The art of
possibility for
impossible times

Perran turns the ordinary into the extraordinary, a glimpse into another world of possibilities. Perran’s practice is experiential in nature which explores engagement, the senses, and the environment to trigger an emotional effect in the viewer. Personal moments that touch on aspects of everyday life, which are deeply moving, moments that are often overlooked and yet profoundly beautiful.

Sculpture – Installation – Experiential – Site-specific
Photography – Performance – Environmental – Interactive

Selected
Achievements

Internationally acclaimed and sort after artist
Experienced by over 100,000 people worldwide
Highly collected by over 100 people locally and internationally
Great selection of commissioned private and public works
Received many awards, prizes, grants, and scholarships
Glowing reviews both international and locally
Exhibited regularly around the world and across Australia
Shown at the Art Gallery of NSW, Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney Opera House, Cockatoo Island, Carriageworks, Royal Exhibition Center amongst many other reputable institutions

Selected
Highlights

Perran has exhibited regularly in locations including Tokyo, London, New York, LA, Houston, Shanghai, Mexico, Brussels, Amsterdam, Stockholm, Hong Kong, Singapore, Toronto, Seattle, Hamburg, Milan, and across Australia in more than 20 cities and towns.

Perran has successfully delivered a diversity of commissioned public and private works that have ranged from photographic glass light works built into peoples homes and offices all the way up to a massive site-specific land artwork with an entire village in Wakayama prefecture, Japan that could be seen from space.

He was invited to create a large-scale site-specific installation ‘Permasabi’, to activate the central courtyard of UNSW Art & Design to coincide with the launch and rebranding of the new campus. The work attracted more than 10,000 visitors.

His seminal works Skyboxes, where he takes a two-dimensional photo and turns it back into three-dimensional space by utilising multiple layers of glass prints with lighting, toured on the Contemporary Glass Art Tour of 13 locations around Australia starting at the National Glass Art Gallery, Canberra. The Skyboxes have also been on an International tour of over 20 countries.

Sydney Olympic Park commissioned Perran to create a site-specific artwork for the launch of the Newington Armoury Gallery. Perran utilised the local environment and history of the area, which integrated harmoniously into the gallery. Giving the illusion of standing in the original landscape of the pre-colonised site, at dawn with the sounds of native birds and the wind blowing gently by.

Experiential
Storyteller

Perran skillfully utilises everything at his disposal from images, objects, technology, nature, and science; to the elements and senses; to community, networks, culture and everything in between. To tell a story that is a unique experience for anyone who comes into contact with it.

Perran harnesses the hidden beauty of the everyday to create beauty every day, including creating an endless cascading fountain of milk in an antique wooden dresser, three-dimensional miniature worlds in little exquisitely handcrafted boxes, a microcosmos, plot of land and city in found vintage suitcases, and pioneered a whole new society in the middle of Sydney Harbour on the iconic Cockatoo Island.