Royal Academy Summer Exhibition 2025,
21 June – 17 August
Main Galleries | Burlington House
In Veiled Thorn, Mike Perry hangs agricultural sheeting, he found in a nearby field, over the branches of a Blackthorn tree. The resulting shapes create a forbodding atmosphere that echo the human forms in Rodin’s classic 1884 sculpture, The Bhurgers of Calais. Or maybe a scene from the witches in Macbeth. This post apocalyptic image suggest a dystopian future where plastic waste overruns nature. Perry points to recent scientific studies that indicate there is today over 20 times more plastic in our soils than in the oceans.
