Mick Sowry is a storyteller, artist, and surfer.

He is the award-winning writer, producer and director of two films for performance with orchestra, The Reef (2012), and The Reef Redux (2015), and also the documentary Musica Surfica (2008). All were made in collaboration with the Australian Chamber Orchestra. He is the concept creator, creative director and co-publisher of Great Ocean Quarterly, a journal of art, ideas and the sea. His work has featured in The Surfer's Journal, Surfing World, Surfline, Great Ocean Quarterly, and Roaring Journals. 

In 2022 Mick appeared as a spoken word artist at the Lorne Sculpture Biennale, and in the same year published ‘a spark becomes an is’ — a limited edition hardbound book of photography, poetry and prose, precipitated by the sudden death of his wife, Sue, in 2019.

Mick's large format photographic work featured in his solo 2023 exhibition ’Spark' at Hoop Gallery in Torquay, Australia, and later that year in the group show 'South West', at Boom Gallery, Geelong. Just recently he featured in the Hoop Gallery final group show, Placemakers. That exhibition featured his photography, and charcoals on paper.

Mick has two sons, Joey and Tom. Both are artists. He lives, with Tom, in the village of Jan Juc, just five minutes from his beloved Bell’s Beach, on Wadawurrung Country, at the bottom of Australia.