Mike Kelly
Mike works from Rossendale in the Pennines. His work begins with photographs of the landscape, but often extends beyond the single frame into diptychs, layered surfaces and constructed images.
Much of the work is concerned with thresholds: points of passage where material, time and structure intersect.
He is completing an MA in Photography at Manchester Metropolitan University’s School of Digital Arts.
Coming Soon:
Threshold
Solo Show
Cass Art Space Manchester
18th April - 4th May 2026
Showing now:
Three images were selected as prize winners for Bury Art Museum’s OPEN 2025 exhibition.
The work is on display through to 21st February 2026
Previous Exhibitions:
Three works selected + Cass Art Exhibition Award winner: Bury Art Museum OPEN, November 2025
Gunpowder Tea: IAAC Poetry Film Fest New York , November 2025
Gunpowder Tea: South Asian Poetry Film Festival, Chicago, 2025
Three works selected from 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
