At the 2026 Aotearoa Art Fair, Michael Reid Sydney + Berlin presents a solo booth by photographer Scott Perkins, whose evocative landscapes offer a quietly immersive encounter with the natural world.
In his newest collection, Scott Perkins creates a space beyond the visible, capturing the viewer’s imagination through serene, atmospheric qualities.
Perkins orchestrates an elegant synthesis of photo-media and design elements, demonstrating innovation across printing, framing, and lightbox presentation. His lightboxes introduce a sculptural dimension to his photographs, transforming the spaces they inhabit with considered lighting and exceptional materials, including crafted timber, handmade Japanese washi, and metallic Hahnemühle papers.
Grounded in abstract landscape photography, Perkins’s accomplished aesthetic amplifies the majesty of his sharply composed subject matter.
Profile Cover Image: Scott Perkins, Untitled 18, 2026, Michael Reid, Galleries
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Light plays a central role throughout the presentation. Whether in the soft gradations of distant mountain ranges or the glowing intensity of backlit works, Perkins uses contrast and tonal depth to shape a sense of space that is at once expansive and intimate. His lightbox works, in particular, extend this experience—transforming photographic images into objects that emit their own quiet radiance.
“Mystery pervades the photographs of Scott Perkins… his landscapes can almost seem magical, as if we have floated gently into each scene, drawn irrevocably by the eloquence of land, sea, and sky.
At times Perkins prefers to focus long distance, so that his compositions become almost abstract – flat planes of ocean and sky divided by slivers of light or land. In others, we are drawn toward the landscape itself… where the play of light and dark defines individual forms with remarkable clarity.
There is something remarkable about the technical bravura of Perkins’ photographic practice… yet there is more than one kind of alchemy at work, as we, the viewers, are drawn inexorably into the very essence of each frame.
Paradoxically, while we see the land, sea, and sky through Perkins’ eye, they also become landscapes of the mind… we seemingly stand alone in the presence of an ineffable, primordial beauty.”
— Mary Kisler MNZM, 2025
Learn more about Scott Perkins’ presentation at the Fair here.
Presented by Michael Reid Sydney + Berlin
Aotearoa Art Fair returns to the Viaduct Events Centre from 30 April – 3 May. Tickets are on sale now.
