Mick Sowry is a writer, artist, and surfer.

He is the award-winning producer, director and co-editor of two films for performance with orchestra, The Reef (2012), and The Reef Redux (2015), and also the writer and director of the multi-award-winning 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, and ocean adventurer/marketer/buccaneer Mark Willett, as the commercial director.

His work has featured in The Surfer's Journal, Surfing World, Surfline, Great Ocean Quarterly, YÜTH Magazine, 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.

In early 2024 he joined founders Mikey Walshe and Carson Kropfl, two nineteen year old Californian college students in launching YÜTH Magazine, as creative director. What began as helping a couple of visionary young men launch an idea to ‘get kids off screens’. is now four issues in, about to be five, and the team has grown from three to fifteen.

In 2025 he was invited to contribute to Glass 2, an anthology of North Atlantic ocean photographers and writers. His will be the sole Antipodean contribution.

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.