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Clay PerryIn the midst of 1960s London, Clay Perry was the photographer for the avant-garde art scene, documenting the most innovative international artists of the period, including Yoko Ono, David Medalla, Liliane Lijn, Robert Rauschenberg, Sérgio Camargo, Gustav Metzger, Jesús Rafael Soto, Takis and Mark Boyle. Perry became house photographer for the legendary SIGNALS Gallery, producing images for its iconic SIGNALS Newsbulletin that provided a forum for artists, writers and poets involved in experimental art.
The exhibition Constellation (2009) at England & Co brought together Clay Perry's photographs of the 1960s with works from the period. The images on these pages include works from that exhibition, among them Perry's previously unpublished photographs of Yoko Ono's 1967 show, Half-a-Wind.
Clay Perry's photographs of Latin American artists and exhibitions at Signals Gallery have been exhibited with England & Co the Pinta Latin American Art Fairs in London and New York, and were the central focus of the England & Co exhibition SIGNALS: London (1964-1966) in 2014.
His photographs from SIGNALS were recently featured in two recent London exhibitions devoted to Signals gallery in 2018: one at Sotheby's S/2 Gallery and the other, a presentation by kurimanzutto at the Thomas Dane Gallery.
Clay Perry studied photography at Guilford School of Art, and began his involvement with SIGNALS in the summer of 1964. He went on to take photographs for Indica Gallery who exhibited Takis in 1966, and to photograph Yoko Ono at her Lisson Gallery exhibition in 1967. Perry later became an established editorial photographer, working extensively for the Sunday Times Magazine, producing books with Thames & Hudson. His work is represented in the National Portrait Gallery, London, and his photographs from the 1960s have been exhibited in London and São Paulo and reproduced in numerous international publications.
For requests to acquire or to publish images from Clay Perry's 1960s archive, please contact England & Co.
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(At her Half-a-Wind exhibition at Lisson Gallery.)
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(At her Half-a-Wind exhibition at Lisson Gallery.)
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(At her Half-a-Wind exhibition at Lisson Gallery.)
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(At her Half-a-Wind exhibition at Lisson Gallery.)
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(At her Half-a-Wind exhibition at Lisson Gallery.)
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(At her Half-a-Wind exhibition at Lisson Gallery.)
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(At her Half-a-Wind exhibition at Lisson Gallery.)
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(At her Half-a-Wind exhibition at Lisson Gallery.)
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(At her Half-a-Wind exhibition at Lisson Gallery.)
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(At her Half-a-Wind exhibition at Lisson Gallery.)
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(At her Half-a-Wind exhibition at Lisson Gallery.)
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(At her Half-a-Wind exhibition at Lisson Gallery.)
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(At Cornwall Gardens, London SW7.)
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(At Cornwall Gardens, London SW7.)
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(At Cornwall Gardens, London SW7.)
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(With Medalla's Cloud Canyons 'bubble mobile'.)
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(At Cornwall Gardens, from left: Paul Keeler, Sergio de Camargo, Guy Brett, Christopher Walker, David Medalla, Gustav Metzger)
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(Installing Lygia Clark's sculptures at Signals.)
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(With sculpture by Lygia Clark at Signals Gallery.)
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(At the Magnetic Exhibition by Takis at Signals.
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(Part of Continuous Drawing project by Tjebbe van Tijen, Amsterdam-London 1966-67)
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(Gustav Metzger, far right, talking to Mark Boyle. Medella's Cloud Canyons are visible through the window in the background.)
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(At Lygia Clark's exhibition at Signals Gallery.)
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