Herring's best-known work of the sixties and seventies used photography and documentation to record environmental statements made by him in primarily unpopulated areas. Long before the 'green movement' gained popularity, this work questioned consumption, creation and cultural responsibilities by means of the iconography of the most subtle forms of intervention.

His later work used combinations of language and images to construct, deconstruct, elucidate and debate the idea, signification and consumption of art and culture. These complex linguistic systems contained their own critical meta-language, which allowed, for the first time in the history of western art, the theoretical dependencies of the work to be examined as a part of the work itself.

He has exhibited in Manchester, London, Nottingham, Edinburgh, Oxford, Berlin, Paris, San Francisco, New York and Belgrade. The Victoria and Albert Museum in London holds examples of his work.

He has collaborated with many artists. Keith Arnatt's "Self-Burial" project, for which Herring was the photographer, is the fruit of many discussions and experiments together and is perhaps the most widely known.

Herring has shown in mixed exhibitions with such artists as Keith Arnatt, Terry Atkinson, Stuart Brisley, Victor Burgin, Joseph Kosuth and John Stezaker.

A selection of Herring's work follows. Click on an image to access photo gallery (popup).