Mick Sowry is a storyteller, artist, and surfer.

He is the award-winning writer, producer, director and co-editor 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. These works have been performed around the world, at venues including Disney Hall in Los Angeles and The Barbican in London.

A long nurtured idea for a journal of art, ideas and the sea, a great ocean quarterly, became real in 2013. His role as concept creator, creative director and co-publisher of Great Ocean Quarterly, was mightily complemented by his partners, author Jock Serong as editor, with ocean adventurer and marketer, Mark Willett, as the commercial director.

His writing and photography 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 he 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.