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.
2008
The Earl's Court Irregulars, Gallery 286, London, UK.
Main image: Photomontage by Tim Dry
This year's Gallery 286 Christmas show brought together a diverse range of artists who had all exhibited at the gallery during its first 10 years of operation.
Andrew Pepper showed along with:
Clare Belfield
Edward Bell
Jennifer Binnie
Patrick Boyd
Ken Cox
Rowena Coxwell
Tim Dry
Duggie Fields
Eleni Gagoushi
Oliver Gili
David Henderson
Rebecca Hutchinson
Andrew Logan
Mali
Martick Jewellery
Sarah Nutley
Polly Nuttall
Caroline Palmer
Dido Powell
Tony Rothon
Tonelise Rugaas
Andrew Ryder
Camilla Shivarg
Olivia Stanton
Prudence Walters
Andrew Pepper showed Nine Drawn Spaces from the Absence of Drawing series.
Exhibition dates: 8th - 31st December, 2009
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
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
2001
Gallery 286, London, UK.
This solo exhibition included a site specific installation "Sight Lines" as well as a number of new wall and floor works sown along side pieces from the 1980's and 90's
"Sight Lines" spanned one wall of the gallery space and was made up of 9 rusted metal plates, each containing a small, circular, hologram.
The plates hang from the gallery ceiling and are each illuminated by one of the spotlights normally used to display reflection holograms on the wall. In the location were visitors might expect to view holograms, on the wall at eye height, thin digital photographs of each metal plate are displayed.
The hanging structure prohibits close access to the wall images.
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