Title: Oblique Lean
Date: 2015
Materials: Digital hologram, video camera, video monitor and shuttered theatrical spotlight
Size: Hologram 29 x 29 cm
Installation: Gallery floor
Notes: Produced within the Summer Lodge 2015 residency at Nottingham Trent University.
29th June - 10th July 2015.
Oblique Lean is one of a series of pieces developed during the Summer Lodge 2015 residency which takes place each year within the fine art studios at Nottingham Trent University.
Part of the 'peripheral view' group of works, it attempts to dislocate the viewer's initial connection with the holographic image.
Much of our visual engagement with our environment is 'peripheral' - images and sounds just 'outside' of our field of focus.
When approaching the floor-based installation the image of the illuminated hologram is displayed live on a cubic, cathode ray video monitor. The structure of the shuttered light, which illuminates both hologram, monitor and floor, reflects the spatial structure found within the hologram.
Moving through the exhibition space an observer walks into the viewing zone of the holographic image which displays its dimensional image. At this point the live video image is no longer visible.
See also Three Spaces 2015
Title: Point Addition - Mix
Date: 1986
Edition: Installation
Materials: Reflection hologram on glass, wood plinth, electronic dimmers, spot lights.
Size: Installation - Galler wall and floor - Hologram H 25.4 x W 20.32cm (10 x 8 inches)
Notes: An installation produced for Space Open Studios, Hackney.
During the late 1980's Andrew Pepper occupied a Space Studio in the London borough of Hackney. The group of artists who worked in this old industrial building organised a series of "Open Studios" to showcase.
Point Addition - Mix used a previously produced hologram (Point Addition) which was hung upside down on the studio wall. Holograms are normally hung so that the light needed to illuminate them can be shone onto them from the ceiling. Here, it was possible to illuminate the piece from below.
Directly in front of the piece stands a wood plinth containing three narrow beam spotlights which shine up onto the hologram and allow its recorded image to be reconstructed. On the plinth, where visitors would normally expect to find an object (using a traditional museum/gallery display vocabulary and expectation), were there rotary control knobs. Each allowed a corresponding spotlight to be dimmed or turned of completely.
As holograms normally require a single source of light to reconstruct their recorded image, any extra light can cause disruption to the display - often resulting in multiple images or blurring. Here this possible disruption is given to the observer who can add and subtract extra light to the display. The result is a multiplication of the luminous 'dots' help in the holographic recording. In effect the gallery visitor is given control and an opportunity to 'mix' points in space and therefore 'construct' their own 'structure' in real time and in three-dimensions.
Title: Drawing Series
Date: 1987
Edition: Edition of 3
Materials: 5 Reflection hologram on glass, wood support, card.
Size: each holographic plate H 25.4 x W 20.32cm (10 x 8 inches)
Collection: MIT Museum, Boston, USA.
Notes: Produced with an artist-in-residency at the Museum of Holography during 1987, these 5 pieces offer a systematic exploration of a drawn cube each plate reducing the visible information as a way of testing visual tolerance and its resulting dimensional impact.
These pieces made up part of Pepper's fine art PhD submission to the University of Reading in 1988.
Drawing 1
Drawing 2
Drawing 3
Drawing 4
Drawing 5
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.
Title: Over Shadowed
Date: 1990
Edition: Unique
Materials: Reflection hologram on glass
Size: H 25.4 x W 20.32cm (10 x 8 inches)
Collection: Private collection, USA.