Light Wedge, 2018 – present
Two glass holographic plates (drawings), physical wooden wedge.
We intrinsically ‘understand’ how drawings in our world function. They are stable and attached to their picture plane. What happens when that drawing is moved off the surface, and what does it become? It is neither a drawing, a photograph, or physical object.
In Light Wedge, a ‘drawn’ representation of a wooden wedge occupies a ‘place’ between the glass ‘picture’ surface and the observer. The light in the holograms is from 2018, when the drawings were recorded. Light from the physical wedge is from 2022 (or whenever the installation is viewed).
Light Wedge was selected from over 300 entries for inclusion in the 2022 New Art Exchange Open exhibition.
Gallery installation
Wedge detail
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
Light Wedge 2018 was produced at the Light Foundry, Santa Fe, New Mexico, USA in collaboration with artist August Muth.
Light Wedge 2018
Is a floor mounted installation made up of dichromate gelatine holograms supported by a wooden wedge.
Produced in collaboration with August Muth, the Light Foundry, Santa Fe, New Mexico, USA.
Originally shown in Art in Holography: Light, Space & Time at the Aveiro City Museum, Portugal.
Plate 1, 49 x 34 x 1 cm, Plate 2, 34.5 x 31, 1 cm
Detail
Floor installation
This curated exhibition coincided with the 11th International Symposium on Display Holography, held at the University of Aviero and Light Wedge was shown in two versions.
The initial floor installation incorporated two plates (Plate 1, 49 x 34 x 1 cm, Plate 2, 34.5 x 31, 1 cm) and physical wooden wedge which was displayed for the duration of the symposium. For the remainder of the exhibition (until September 30th) a single plate (49 x 34 x 1 cm) lifted slightly from the gallery floor by the wooden wedge, was shown.
Single version on show until 30th September.
Detail
Light Wedge has also been installed at the New Art Exchange Open 2022 exhibition.
June - September 2022
Aveiro City Museum, Portugal.
A curated exhibition including over 25 internaternational artists working with holography and light.
The show coincided with the 11th International Symposium on Display Holography held at the University of Avairo.
Gallery View on one of the two floors of exhibition space.
A new work by Andrew Pepper was presented as part of the exhibition which included the floor installation Light Wedge 2018.
The initial installation was made up of two glass holographic plates, one supported by a wooden wedge and the other by the first holographic plate.
This version was on show for the duration of the symposium and was then reinstalled to include a single plate with holographic drawing and wedge.
Light Wedge 2018
Two Floor mounted dichromate gelatine holograms, wooden wedge.
Produced in collaboration with August Muth, the Light Foundry, Santa Fe, New Mexico, USA.
More details of the two versions of this work shown in Aveiro here.
More details of the two versions of this work shown in Aveiro here.
Exhibition dates: 26th June - 30th September 2018
As part of the Spaces of Uncertainty Summer Academy in Stuttgart, during September 2016, a number of projected interventions were temporarily installed at the Württembergischer Kunstverein.
Using the disregarded corner of the huge Kunstverein gallery space, these projected light installations 'brushed' the surface of the walls, were present for short periods and then disappeared (when the projection devises were switched of) leaving only the memory of the event.
Walking past the corner - on the way to more significant parts of the gallery, the 'drawn' luminous lines shift, perceptually and clash slightly with our understanding of the edges of the room and how we expect them to appear when we move past them. There is a perspective 'animation' here activate entirely by the viewers visual expectation and their transition past the work.
The Summer Academy (part of the European Erasmus programme) brought together students and staff from 7 partner institutions :
The Hungarian University of Fine Arts (MKE)
Stuttgart State Academy of Art and Design
Jan Matejko Academy of Fine Arts in Krakow
Academy of Fine Arts and Design, Bratislava
Kingston University
University of Dundee
Duncan of Jordanstone College of Art & Design &
Nottingham Trent University.
Teaching staff lead workshops with students from these European institutions and also developed aspects of their own research through conversation, consultation, collaboration and individual making and testing.
5th - 15th September 2016
Title: Three - Nine
Date: 2016
Materials: 35mm slide + projector, gallery plinths, illuminated wall, digital reflection hologram,
Size: Gallery Installation
Notes: Developed from explorations initiated in the Summer Lodge 2015 residency at Nottingham Trent University.
29th June - 10th July 2015.
Subsequent staging and testing at Primary Studio's Film Free and Easy, October 2015.
Installed as part of the Alternative Document Exhibition, Project Space Plus, Lincoln, UK, the piece incorporates three 35mm slide projectors, each projecting a single image of a rectangle (and bisecting line) onto the gallery wall.
Other work with the 'three planes' digital hologram has been undertaken in a variety of locations.