2010, 2011, 2012
A curated exhibition from the Jonathan Ross Collection, London, which toured to 4 major UK museums and galleries between 2010 and 2012.
A survey of current and historical holography across the fields of art, design and commerce.
Featured image from the Rugby Art Gallery and Museum during the 2012 exhibition.
Image © Jonathan Ross
Exhibition dates:
Rugby Art Gallery and Museum, 7th August - 2nd September 2012
Oxfordshire Museum, 15th January - 6th March 2011
Banbury Museum, 23rd July - 3rd September 2011
Buckingham County Museum, Aylesbury, 15th January - 31st October 2010
More details on the Ross Collection website
Bonington Gallery, Nottingham Trent University, School of Art and Design, Nottingham, UK.
A group exhibition on the theme of 'Archipelago'.
Staff from Nottingham Trent University's School of Art and Design, were invited to submit proposals featuring experimental practice from a range of art and design disiplines.
Artists were asked to consider themselves and their practice as islands. An island may be the work of one practitioner, that of an established collaboration, or a group brought together by common concerns.
Tizio Water
This small rectangle of 'ground' inverts the normal impression of an archipelago - here the holographic shadow of liquid is the defining terrain, edged by the junction between the glass holographic plate and the surrounding solid architecture (the gallery floor).
Approached from a distance, the black crane-like structure of a Tizio table lamp (a recognisable and practical design classic), offers a graphic and defined 'point to view from'. It is, in a way, instructional - guiding the viewer to an observation point. Its light precisely directed down onto a holographic rectangle which appears black and flat from a distance.
One aim of the installation is to interrogate the symbiosis between the historic 'found' object (recognised, celebrated and archived in major international art and design museums) and the 'historic' holographic recording (unknown, displaced and functionless). The latter is made visible by the presence of the former.
Exhibition dates: 16th January - 12th February
2012
Gallery 286 London, UK.
A selection of abstract holograms, by British & American artists from the 1980s and 90s.
This exhibition of work from the Ross Collection brought together some of the key artists working with holography and showcased clasic work produced in the 1980's and 90's
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| Square Eclipse 1989 Reflection hologram on glass Details |
6 Lines Folded 1989 Reflection hologram on glass Details |
Two works from the Ross collection by Andrew Pepper were included, both produced during his doctoral research period at the University of Reading,UK.
Made with support from the Lionel Robbins Memorial Scholarship.
A video of the installation is available here.
More details about Pepper's work in the Ross Collection here
Exhibition dates: 3rd - 10th May 2012
2012
Call and Response, The Broadcaster, The Postmethodist, Reading Room & Chapel, Wellingore, Lincolnshire, UK.
A number of artists were invited to make small announcement cards for either a 'call' or a 'response' for display in the Broadcaster exhibition cabinets, Wellingore, Lincolnshire.
Taking as its cue the spontaneity of ‘lost cat’ and ‘found cat’ notices appearing in the same newsagent window often referring to the same cat. The project seeks to exemplify the circularity of exchanges in the everyday. As both the Call and Response are created in isolation this creates an element of chance imbuing the project with the potential for a call, created by one artist, to unwittingly match a response from another or vice versa. Thinking beyond the context of the newsagent window artist were ask to create a call in which the subject matter and form for either the call or response was totally at their discretion. The only proviso being that it must fit on the plain side of a blank postcard.
Andrew Pepper produced "Found - Small Hole, Lost drawing" incorporating a laser cut 'drawn' hole' on/in watercolour paper.
More details about the Broadcaster series of exhibitions here.
Exhibition images © Danica Maiers 2012
Exhibition dates: 21 June - 20th September 2012