Andrew Pepper

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

2008

The City Gallery, Leicester, UK.

The One Leicester Open brings together artists working in the East Midlands region.  This show celebrated the 20th anniversary of the Leicester Open and attracted over 400 Midland based artists.

Andrew Pepper showed Nine Drawn Spaces

More details about the exhibition here.

Exhibition dates: 15th November 2008 - 10th January 2009

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

2008

Hand and Heart Gallery, Nottingham

A group exhibition, curated by Aaron Juneau, centered on the notion of "making marks" or 'mark making' in its broadest sense.

From the early Palaeolithic era and the very dawn of mankind, human beings have had an innate compulsion to externalise their thoughts and feelings, to pause and reflect on the past and present or prophetically envisage the future by way of creating images or simply producing visual or audible gestures.

A phenomenon that has continually diversified throughout history, from the first marks of humankind found deep within the Lascaux caves of Southern France to improvised music as a form of expressionistic sound drawing, ‘making marks’ has expanded to encompass every artistic medium and has been firmly established as a crucial provisional process in the formulation of all creative ventures. It might be said that much of an artists work goes unseen, becoming relegated to the recesses of the studio space. However, perhaps it is this unseen work that is pivotal to the constitution of all masterworks; an essential formative process, rooted in irresolution yet loaded with latent possibility.

The show encompasses many practicing visual artists including those within artist’s collectives in Nottingham and the surrounding areas with artist’s submissions from around the country. Work includes: textual, drawn, scrawled or scribbled, painted, photographed, filmed or videoed, recorded, spoken and performed.

'Over Drawn', reflection hologram on glass, on show at 'Making Marks'.

Photo © Keith Bryant 2008 

Exhibition dates: 4th - 21st September 2008 

2010

An Exhibition to celebrate the 60th anniversary of the hologram.

Exhibition Venues

The Willis Museum, Basingstoke, 3rd April - 22nd June 2010.

The Alton Museum, Hampshire, 4th July 4 – 29th August 2009.

The York College Gallery, 24th April 24 - 22nd May, 2009.

Buckinghamshire County Museum, Aylesbury, 6th December 2008 – 21st March 2009

Rugby Art Gallery and Museum, 7th - 31st August 2008

The Oxfordshire Museum, Woodstock, Oxfordshire, May - July 2008

Banbury Museum, Banbury, UK, 1st March - 5th May 2008 

BBC news report on the exhibition at Rugby Museum. (Opens in a new window)

The exhibition includes work by many of the formost hologram artists and other key innovators in the field - milestones from holographic history - along with some of the latest technical developments.

"In holography, our age is still the pioneering age, and the 1980's and 90's are the first age of holographic excellence. The artists who have chosen to work in the new medium are explorers that in later times will be accorded the same interest as Fox Talbot, Roger Fenton and Camille Silvy."