Mike Roles has been involved with a number of corporate projects for both national and international companies which have mostly involved both 3D form and the photographic image.

The relationship between image and form was central to the PhD research which Mike carried out at the Royal College of Art, London, in the 1990's.

Work resulting from this research was influential in the development of both Mike's personal work and also in his corporate projects, which he calls ImageSculpures.

Case history of a corporate commission - The Lloyd's Millennium ImageSculpture

Lloyd's of London commissioned Mike to produce an ImageSculpture to commemorate the turn of the millennium. The work was to be primarily a corporate photographic portrait of all the staff working at Lloyd's at the turn of century. However, they required something more sculptural, monumental and imposing than a photographic print.

The resulting ImageSculpture constitutes a structure measuring 9.93 metres by 2.6 metres made up of eleven curved metal panels arranged in a semi-circle creating a bowl-like structure. Each of the panels supports one of the eleven photographic images which together record the 360 degree radius of the "The Room". While the structure itself makes strong references to the exterior design of the Richard Rogers building, the images it supports record a cumulative portrait of approximately one thousand individual people associated with Lloyd's at the turn of the millennium.