1989
Interference Gallery, Toronto, Canada.
A collection of wall-based holographic 'drawings', produced over the previous 3-4 years were included in this exhibition as well as works on glass and a site specific light projection.
Installation view with Plane Addition visible at the centre of the image.
8" x 10" reflection holograms with two 5" x 4" (slanted) holographic 'drawings'.
Series of reflection holograms produced between 1988/9
Site-specific corner installation using light from a 35 mm slide projector directed up through a transparent (black) construction to animate line removed from the surface.
The Interference Hologram Gallery was an important supporter of artists working with holography and mounted many solo and group exhibitions to showcase the developing research produced by artists.
Exhibition dates: 17th June - 29th July, 1989.
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.
Exhibition dates:
2003-4
UK Spaces: Holographic drawings, volumes and site specific installation.
Butler Institute of American Art, Beecher Center Wing, Youngstown, Ohio, USA.
Known for its encouragement of art and technology, the Butler Institute of American Art has mounted several solo and group exhibitions of artists who incorporate various aspects of technology within their practice.
Pepper's eleven month show included 13, 10 x 8 inch reflection holograms, produced over the previous 15 years.
A site-specific installation ‘Sight Lines Wall’ was also installed and ran along several meters of the exhibition space in the Butler’s Beecher Wing, part of their Center for Technology in the Arts.
‘Sight Lines Wall’ has developed from work first shown in Pepper’s solo exhibition at Gallery 286, London, UK. Here Pepper describes some of the background relating to the London installation.
Because the technology and optical/illusionistic effect of holographic images there is a overwhelming unfamiliarity (when compared to more traditional forms of art). Holograms tend to be framed and hung in straight lines on gallery walls. This method of display offers the viewer a reassuring point of reference (and method of presentation). Perhaps it makes it easier to engage with, or 'accept' holography as a viable visual process.
In “Sight Lines” the holograms have been taken off the wall and placed horizontally, just above the floor. Prior to being installed in the gallery the hanging metal surfaces have been allowed to rust, out in the open, arranged in a straight line. There is an ‘environmental’ and physical continuity between each metal surface and the pattern of rusting it has received. Each of the small circular holograms contain images of liquid, the shadows of which exist just above the surface of the glass which holds the holographic emulsion. Like the pattern created by the rust, these shadows could not be predicted. The liquids used on the metal and during the recording of the hologram have ‘drawn’ their own marks over the surfaces.
This reference to ‘drawing’ is a common and reoccurring element in Pepper’s work. The metal sheets are the dimensions of half a sheet of A4 paper, an accessible size found all over Europe. Something people write on, draw on, photocopy on, laser print on. Here the size has been divided along the longest length to produce a shape onto which long lines could be drawn. Each hologram has been chosen to complement the pattern of marks on the rusted metal sheet. They are ‘subdued’. green/brown, red and an integral part of each metal rectangle, not simply surrounded by a ‘frame’ to make them convenient to display.
Exhibition dates: 25th May 2003 - April 2004
1999
Highgate Gallery, Highgate, London, UK.
Divided Line was produced specifically for this solo exhibition at the Highgate Gallery, London, in responce to the coat of arms which occupied the upper back wall of the exhibition space.
This thin white light transmission hologram, supported on each side by incandescent light tubes, was illuminated by three light sources.
Installation view showing coat of arms, light sources and Divided Line below.
Sight Lines, installation at Gallery 286, London, UK
2024
Die Dritte Dimension im Bild, Imaging the Third Dimension - Holograms and Optical Illusions in the Würth Collection Kunsthalle Würth, Schwäbisch Hall, Germany.
Analogue virtual worlds: Display holography at the dawn of cyberspace. Gallery 286, London, UK.
Paradigma Holográfico, Centro de Holografía y Artes Dados Negros, Castilla La Mancha, Spain.
2022
New Art Exchange Open, NAE, Nottingham, UK
2020
Enough is Definitely Enough, Pineapple Black, Middlesbrough UK.
Enough is Definitely Enough, Oceans Apart, Salford, UK.
2019
Enough is Definitely Enough, General Practice, Lincoln, UK.
2018
Art in Holography: Light, Space & Time, Aveiro City Museum, Portugal.
Analogue Ensemble: Extending the Frame, Whitstable Biennale, Studio 3 Gallery, University of Kent, School of Arts, Canterbury, UK.
Documents Alternatives #3, BSAD Gallery, Bath School of Art and Design, Bath, UK.
The Unsupported Mark - Drawing with Holography, Gallery286, London, UK.
Documents Alternatives #2, Verge Gallery, University of Sydney, NSW, Australia.
2017
Documents Alternative #1, Airspace Gallery Stoke-on-Trent, UK.
Aura Kinetica, Currents New Media Arts Festival, El Museo Cultural de Santa Fe, New Mexico, USA.
2016
Nottingham Castle Open, Nottingham Castle Museum & Art Gallery, Nottingham, UK.
Spaces of Uncertainty, Summer Academy, Württembergischer Kunstverein, Stuttgart, Germany.
Film Free and Easy, Primary Studios, Nottingham, UK.
Still Unresolved, ( ) Gallery, School of Art and Design, Fine Art, Nottingham Trent University, Nottingham, UK.
The Alternative Document, Project Space Plus, University of Lincoln, UK.
Mid Winter - Love Light, Gallery 286, London, UK.
Performing Drawology, Artist-in-Residence, Bonington Gallery, School of Art and Design, Nottingham Trent University, Nottingham, UK.
2015
Film Free and Easy, Primary Studios, Nottingham, UK.
International Exhibition of Holography, Elisseev Palace, St. Petersburg, Russia.
Summer Museum, Governors Island, New York, USA
Holografie, Art works from the collection of the ZKM Karlsruhe, European House of Art, Schafhof, Germany.
2014
Holografie, Art works from the collection of the ZKM Karlsruhe, European House of Art, Schafhof, Germany.
Drawology, Lanchester Gallery,
Coventry University, The Hub, Jordan Well, Coventry, UK.
The Big Exhibition, Project Space Plus,
School of Fine & Performing Arts, University of Lincoln, Lincoln, UK.
Since 1843: In The Making, Bonington Gallery,
School of Art and Design, Nottingham Trent University, Nottingham, UK.
Holography, ZKM, Karlsruhe, Germany.
2013
Interference : Coexistence, The Clock Tower,
Long Island City, NY, USA.
Drawology, Bonington Gallery,
School of Art and Design, Nottingham Trent University, Nottingham, UK.
Holography, ZKM, Karlsruhe, Germany.
2012
Call and Response, The Broadcaster, The Postmethodist, Reading Room & Chapel
Wellingore, Lincolnshire, UK.
Sculpting with Light, Gallery 286,
London, UK.
Archipelago, Bonington Gallery,
School of Art and Design, Nottingham Trent University, Nottingham, UK.
2011
Contemporary Sculpture: Transit,
School of Art and Design, Nottingham Trent University, Nottingham, UK.
Garden of Light, Gallery 175,
Seoul, Korea.
MIniment[s]
Nottingham Trent University, School of Art and Design,
Nottingham, UK.
Holograms 2, The Banbury Museum,
Oxfordshire, UK.
Holograms 2, Oxfordshire Museum,
Woodstock, UK.
140 characters, Moss public library,
Moss, Norway.
Arts Council England, Great Peter Street,
London, UK.
2010
140 characters, Moss public library,
Moss, Norway.
Holograms 2, Buckinghamshire County Museum,
Aylesbury UK.
Arts Council England, Great Peter Street,
London, UK.
Holograms, The First 60 Years, The Willis Museum,
Basingstoke, UK.
2009
Christmas Show, Gallery 286,
London, UK.
Holograms, the First 60 Years, The Alton Museum,
Hampshire, UK.
Holograms, the First 60 Years, York College Gallery,
York, UK.
Holograms, the First 60 Years, The Buckinghamshire County Museum,
Aylesbury, UK.
2008
Making Marks, Hand and Heart Gallery,
Nottingham, UK.
Holograms, the First 60 Years, Rugby Art Gallery and Museum,
Rugby, UK.
The Drawing Wall, Drawing Out, Bonington Gallery,
Nottingham Trent University, School of Art and Design, Nottingham, UK.
Holograms, the First 60 Years, Banbury Museum,
Oxfordshire, UK.
One Leicester Open 20, The City Gallery,
Leicester, UK.
The Earl's Court Irregulars, Gallery 286,
London, UK.
Holograms, the First 60 Years, Banbury Museum,
Banbury, UK.
2007
Rules of the Game, Surface Gallery,
Nottingham, UK.
2006
Holography the 3-Dimensional Experience, Bodelwyddan Castle, Wales,UK.
2005
Work from the Jonathan Ross Hologram Collection, Gallery 286, London, UK.
2004
UK Spaces: Holographic Drawings, volumes and site specific installation (Solo), Butler Institute of American Art,
Youngstown, Ohio, USA.
Ten-Year Retrospective, Highgate Gallery, London.UK
2003
New Acquisitions 2, Gallery 286, London, UK.
Light From Shadow: The Legacy of Chiaroscuro in Spatial Imaging, Ivan Dougherty Gallery,
New South Wales, Australia.
UK Spaces: Holographic Drawings, volumes and site specific installation (Solo), Butler Institute of American Art,
Youngstown, Ohio, USA.
2001
New Acquisitions, Gallery 286,
London, UK.
Deep Shadows? (Solo), Gallery 286,
London, UK.
2000
Die Neue Dimension, Rathaus St. Johann, Saarbrücken, Germany.
Die Neue Dimension, Kulturbrauerei, Berlin, Germany.
Holografie 2000, Stadtmuseum St. Pölten, Austria.
The Royal Photographic Society Members Summer Show 2000,
The Royal Photographic Society, Bath, UK.
1999
Lumia, International Lyskunst, Charlottenborg Udstillingsbygning,
Copenhagen, Denmark.
Visions into the 21st Century: The New Age of Holography, Canton Museum of Art,
Canton, Ohio, USA.
Ten-Year Gallery Retrospective, Highgate Gallery,
London, UK.
1998
Lanchester Gallery (Solo), Coventry University,
Coventry, UK.
Inaugural Exhibition, Gallery 286, London, UK.
1997
International Exhibition of Fine Art Holograms, Sonnenschein Art Gallery, Durand Art Institute,
Lake Forest, USA.
The Holography Gallery, Royal Photographic Society, Bath, UK.
1996
Colección Karas, Escuela De Arte De Longrono, Spain.
The World of Holography, Tempozan Contemporary Museum , Osaka, Japan.
1995
Galerie für Holographie und Neue Visuelle Medien (Solo),
Frechen, Germany.
Holography from around the World,
James Dun's House, The University of Aberdeen, Aberdeen, Scotland, UK.
The Art of Holography, National Museum of Photography, Film and Television,
Pictureville, Bradford, UK.
Kunst ist Kommunikation ist Kunst, Lauk & Partner, Frechen, Königsdorf, Germany.
1994
Borderlines, Neuer Berliner Kunstverein, Berlin, Germany.
Holography, Artists and Inventors, MIT Museum, Boston, Massachusetts, USA.
Switched-On Mains, Bonington Gallery, Nottingham Trent University, Nottingham, UK.
1993
Schatten-Projektionen,Städtische Galerie Schloß Oberhausen, Oberhausen, Germany.
Borderlines, Deutsche Fototage, Frankfurt, Germany.
Trug & Traum, Holographie und Neue Visuelle Medien, Ausstellungszentrum am Fernsehturm,
Berlin, Germany.
Videoarco, Crystal Pavilion, Madrid, Spain.
Holografie, Vier Thematische Tentoonstelligen, Universiteit Gent, Belgium.
La Mujer, Karas Studios, Madrid.
1992
Karas Studios (Solo),
Madrid, Spain.
Installation with holograms and projected light,Siegen Medientage, Siegen, Germany.
Hologramas, Casa Del Monte, Madrid, Spain.
Avanguardia dell'Arte Olografica, Centro Espositivo Rocca Paolina, Perugia, Italy.
Museum für Holographie und Neue Visuelle Medien, Pulheim, Germany.
Telekom Laden, Schildergasse, Cologne, Germany.
1991
Les Images en Folie - 700 years of Switzerland,
Centre ralaisam du film et de la photographie, Martigny, Switzerland.
Holographische Visionen, Gürzenich, Cologne, Germany.
Fiat Lux. Holografia Internacional, Oviedo, Spain.
1990
Digital Gallery (Solo), Digital Equipment Co,
Reading,UK.
Watermans Arts Centre(Solo),
Brentford,UK.
Gill Gallery (Solo),
Newham, London, UK.
Captured Light, Chelsea House, Long Island, New York, USA.
Captured Light, Museum of Holography, New York, USA.
Images du Futur '90, Montreal, Canada.
School of Art and Design, Croydon College, Croydon, UK.
1989
Beyond the Surface - Works with Light (Solo), Interference Gallery,
Toronto, Canada.
Critic's Space 5, Air Gallery, London, UK.
Work from the permanent collection, Museum of Holography, New York, USA.
Visiona, Messepalast Vienna, Austria.
3-D '89, National Sculpture Open Exhibition, Watermans Arts Centre, Brentford, UK.
Visiona, Ausstellungsgebäude, Zurich, Switzerland.
Open Studios, Victor House,
Hackney, London, UK.
1988
Museum für Holographie und Neue Visuelle Medien (Solo),
Pulheim, Germany.
Third International Exhibition of Holography, Lake Forest, Illinois, USA .
Holographica '88, Stuttgarter Messe, Stuttgart, Germany.
1987
Holography and Laser Sculpture, Mid Pennine Arts Association, Burnley, UK.
A.I.R Exhibition, Museum of Holography, New York, USA.
Works for Shelves, Kettle's Yard, Cambridge, UK.
Illuminations: State of the Art Holography, Royal Photographic Society, Bath, UK.
Space Open Studios, Victor House, London, UK.
Come Touch Tomorrow Exhibition, Trocadero, London, UK.
Empire State Building, New York, USA.
1986
19th L.G. Harris Arts Festival, Bromsgrove, UK.
Space Open Studios, Victor House, London, UK.
1985
Light and Sculpture educational week, Tom Allen Centre, Stratford East, London, UK.
World Centre of Holography, Trocadero, London, UK.
Stirling Futureworld, Stirling, Scotland, UK.
1984
Light Years Ahead - The Best of British Holography, City Museum, York, UK.
Installation and Performance Festival, South Hill Park, Bracknell,UK.
Light Fantastic Gallery of Holography, London, UK.
1982
Living and Learning Centre (Solo), University of Vermont,
Vermont, USA.
Museum of Holography (Solo),
New York, USA.
1980
New Contemporaries, Institute of Contemporary Art, London,UK.
Similar Visions, Museum of Holography, New York, USA.
University of Reading MFA Exhibition, Reading, UK.
1979
New Contemporaries, Institute of Contemporary Art, London, UK.
Northern Young Contemporaries, Whitworth Art Gallery, Manchester, UK.
1978
University of Nottingham, Adult Education Centre, Nottingham, UK.
