About - Mike Kelly Photography

Exhibitions:

Three works selected + Cass Art Exhibition Award winner: Bury Art Museum OPEN, November 2025

Gunpowder Tea (Collaborative work with MMU and poet Shadab Zeest Hashmi): IAAC Poetry Film Fest New York , November 2025

Gunpowder Tea (Collaborative work with MMU and poet Shadab Zeest Hashmi): South Asian Poetry Film Festival, Chicago, 2025

Selected from an open call for the Swanfall, Fables exhibition: Mall Galleries, London, 2025

SODA x Montag Residency Showcase: Istanbul, 2025

Keep Pushing: Circle Square Installation, Manchester, 2025

Unconformities: Viewpoints Festival, Manchester, 2025

Prosperity through Endeavour: Rossendale, 2025

Calico Works: Dark Peak Photography, 2025

Gunpowder Tea (Collaborative work with MMU and poet Shadab Zeest Hashmi): Imperial War Museum North, 2024

Remix //: Manchester Photographic Gallery, 2012

Lagos street scene: Fela! The musical, Broadway and The National Theatre, 2010

Willie Nelson portrait (collaboration with artist Malcolm Bucknall): the W Hotel, Austin Texas, 2010

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Mike Kelly

I’m a photographer based in Rossendale, just north of Manchester, and I’m currently completing an MA in Photography at Manchester Metropolitan University.

Combining analogue and digital techniques my practice treats photography not as a fixed record but as a layered surface where images accumulate, erode, and shift in meaning.

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