Andrew Pepper

Andrew Pepper has been included in the New Art Exchange 2022 Open exhibition.

The juried selection, from over 300 submitted works, reflects the diversity of practices and approaches from Nottinghamshire based artists and Global Majority artists living in the UK.

Andy will be showing, for the first time in the UK, Light Wedge, an installation incorporating holographic drawings.

More details about the work here.

More details about the New Art Exchange Open installation here.

The exhibition opens on 10th June 2022 and continues until 3rd September
Gallery open Tuesday – Saturday 10am - 4pm

www.nae.org.uk/exhibition/nae-open-2022/191

Artists selected for the NEA Open 2022 are:

• Mohamad Aaqib Anvarmia

• Jessica Ashman

• Tristram Aver

• Sayra Begum

• Adonia Bouchehri

• Roisin Bourke

• Jarvis Brookfield

• Shaista Chishty

• Clare Chun-yu Liu

• Rosie Deegan

• Neequaye Dreph Dsane

• Grace Eden

• Tim Fowler

• Enam Gbewonyo

• Gisou Golshani

• Suman Gujral

• Hannaa Hamdache

• Arthur Hsu

• Henrique J. Paris

• Seungjo Jeong

• Sabine Kaner

• Sumuyya Khader

• Day Eve Komet

• Sahjan Kooner

• Olana Light

• Rudy Loewe

• Jas Lucas

• Jeneé Marie

• Fungai Marima

• Delores Oblitey

• Andrew Pepper

• Daniel Rapley

• Benjamin Rostance

• Shannon Scherer

• Janhavi Sharma

• Chiemi Shimada

• Saintly Amok

• Jamal Sterrett

• Hope Strickland

• Arushee Suri

• Kim Thompson

• Vernon Tong

• Zheni Warner

• Honey Williams

• Kenizzi Yamalimbu

Projected (drawn) light intervention onto one of the Victorian radiators in the Castle's Long Gallery

Each year Nottingham Castle Museum & Art Gallery invites artists in the East Midlands to submit work for inclusion in their 'Open'. 

From over 400 submissions selectors Amy Botfield, Arts Council England and artists Maeve Rendle and Alan Kane, included 37 artists representing the wide range of creative practice taking place in the region.

More information here: www.nottinghamcastleopen.com

22 October 2016 - 8th January 2017

Work has been selected for inclusion in this year's Nottingham Castle Open Exhibition.

I will be showing a projected (drawn) 'intervention' onto one of the long gallery's Victorian radiators.

Each year Nottingham Castle Museum & Art Gallery holds it's 'Open' exhibition and invites artists in the East Midlands to submit work for inclusion.  This year the selection panel was Amy Botfield, Arts Council England; Maeve Rendle, Artist and Alan Kane, Artist.  From over 400 works they selected 37 artists that represented the wide range of creative practice taking place in the region.

The exhibition is open from 22 October 2016 - 8th January 2017 with a special reception taking place on 18th November.

More information here: www.nottinghamcastleopen.com

Title: PA Redrawn-Line

Date: 2013

Edition: Unique

Materials: 20 Reflection holograms on glass.

Size: Installation 100 x 20 cm (approx.)

Notes: Based on previous floor works using multiple holograms, this piece was first shown in the Drawology group exhibition at the Bonington Gallery, Nottingham, UK.

Each of the rectangular holograms are placed in a line, overlapping, covering and in a variety of orientations.

Illuminated from above by a strip of light directed vertically down onto the installation, the marks in each of the holograms appear and fade as an observer moves around the piece.

The marks (three different types) appear just above the glass plate on which they are recorded.

2008

Bonington Gallery,  School of Art and Design, Nottingham Trent University, Nottingham, UK.

The Drawing Wall was an element within the Drawing Out exhibition held at the Bonington Gallery, Nottingham.

All staff in the school of Art and Design, from the Dean to technicians, receptionists, professors, lectures and visiting artists, were invited to submit a 'drawing' to this inclusive 'survey'.

170 works made up the Drawing Wall which was part of a curated exhibition at the Bonington and 1851 galleries. Drawing Out includes selected works using painting, computer animation, sculpture, kinetic construction, ceramics, video projection and text - all exploring the variety of interpretations of, and uses for, drawing.

Almost Nine. Pencil on paper with section cut away. 30 x 30 cm.

Almost Nine was produced specifically for the Drawing Wall by Andrew Pepper and was located in the upper right of the collection.

"When I was a child I used to draw all the time. People told me I was 'good' and should be an artist. The things I drew looked like the things I saw - they were accurate reproductions. A record of an observation. The more accurate they were the more 'impressive' people found them and the less interesting they were for me.

Today drawing is much more about working through an idea, navigating a thought, planning something, placement - a precursor to making. Something beyond a subconscious doodle and not quite accurate enough to 'be anything'.

Almost Nine is a collection of bounded surfaces - edges separating one visual space from another. Just like the much larger Drawing Wall itself, multiple elements are placed next to each other. The only specification for submitting a drawing for the wall was that it should occupy a 30 x 30 cm piece of paper. All the same but all very different once they had been drawn on.

The 9 rectangles anticipated the grid-like installation of the Drawing Wall with the content of the last drawn boundary removed - cut away to reveal the space beneath. That space fascinates me."

Andrew Pepper. April 2008

Exhibition detail. Nine of the 170 submitted drawings on the Drawing Wall

Exhibition dates:  21st April - 9th May 2008