As part of the delivery for first year students on Nottingham Trent University's fine art course a number of 'process' mini-workshops were offered early on in the year.
Students had not been at the university long and were still in a state of 'adjustment' to academic life and the independent study required by the course.
These workshops offered a rapid taster of possibilities which might be applied to current work or ideas. They aimed to act as a catalyst or point of departure.
Andrew Pepper offered a Light & Shadow workshop which was made up of 2 two hour practical seminars on a single day.
Session one explored the interception of projected light from 35mm slide projectors in a dark workshop space.
Session two moved out into the relative brightness of the fine art studios and examined the interference of light and marks produced by overhead projectors and object place on them.
As part of the fine art course at the University of Lincoln, UK, staff offer research based elective sessions for students.
These tend to reflect staff research interests and offer a series of practice-based seminars in which students and staff make, explore, experiment and investigate.
Andrew Pepper has delivered several electives within this model. The most recent covering 4 two hour sessions spread over 4 weeks.
Participants investigate practical and low-tech light projection using 35 mm and overhead projectors. Luminous marks are projected across the workshop spaces onto existing architecture, flexible and translucent screens, thread, fabric, mist and the participants themselves.
Wall sized projections using overhead projectors and translucent objects.
Images in space - marks captured and made visible in the workshop space.
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