Born in 1952, to South African and Austrian parents. Gideon Perry graduated in 1975 from Bezalel Academy of Art, Jerusalem in Fine Arts. Giddi and his wife Orna settled in the village of Clil in 1981 and raised three children. Giddi built the family home, herded sheep, ran the local pub - Giddi's Place, painted and made forest wood furniture pieces.

"Protected Environment" is a phrase probably coined by the national bureau responsible for such linguistic tasks, as part of the civil protection setup, in times of hostilities. Every citizen in Israel is supposed to have access to a protected environment, either within their residence or within the neighbourhood. This space supposedly offers protection from threat.

Giddi Perry partook in a social experiment, founding an alternative community, in the village Clil, in the Western Galilee. People of the community shared an ecological consciousness and considered conservation and protection of nature a fundamental value.

Members did not shy away from sweating and considered important a relationship based on sincerity and respect amongst themselves and with their Arab neighbours. A relationship based on mutual acceptance. Giddi shared in the construction of Clil on both the physical and social level. The village was meant to be a protected environment of sorts.

As time passed and the community founders advanced in age, the initial values which formed the foundation of the new society began to seem somewhat naive. The village no longer provided the protected environment it was meant to be. Giddi reserved a neighbouring relationship with a handful of people and an intimacy with nature and the surrounding landscape, in which he lives and creates.

In the first decades of his life alongside and following art studies at "Bezalel" (Academy of Art-Jerusalem), Giddi practiced in numerous physical lines of work, resulting in fitness of body. Giddi became a man whose body became a protected environment in the most intimate sense. Orna and Giddi and their three children together constructed the family's protected environment.

At 54 Giddi suffered a stroke and returned home to recover to the sound of falling missiles during the recent Israel-Lebanon hostilities; the powerful persistent explosions went on for months. The protected environment in which the family passed the second Lebanon war, is in fact a simple wooden table surrounded by a number of chairs, standing in their yard under the shade cast by the foliage of a large carob tree.

The family protected environment proved fire proof. The family's love and support became a lifeline on Giddi's way back to a full life. The exhibit studies the nature of this protected environment and the tension between its solidity and fragility; in the sense of civil protection and on the existential level.

In "Protected Environment", Giddi is exhibiting recent paintings. Giddi's art is rooted within Western painting traditions and is occupied with classical themes: landscapes, interiors, still lives, self portraits and figures. Those classical themes, which form Giddi's artistic world, are dealt with in an individual way, creating a contemporary pictorial language.

Perry received his artistic education in the years 1971-1975, the high days of conceptual and minimalist art in the Academy, yet he persistently remains a painter.

The early works relate to the landscape in a traditional way, in their romantic observation of the Galilee landscape. The more recent paintings depict breakage and dismantling of those landscapes. The paintings use figurative materials that pass through the subjectivity of the artist and provide building stones for expressive and colour saturated painting.

Giddi joins earlier Israeli painters like Riseman and Rubin who painted studied the unique Western Galilee landscape and light. While Perry paints the same landscapes and light, his works are more of a depiction of internal landscapes, his self made protected environment.