Andrew Pepper

Title: Light Support

Date: 1987

Edition: Unique

Materials: Reflection hologram on glass, industrial 'G' clamp.

Size: H14 x W10.5 cm (4 " x 5")

Notes: Produced for the Works for Shelves exhibition held at Kettles Yard Gallery, Cambridge, UK, in 1987.

The works highlights the unseen 'support' usually placed at the back of a photographic frame and used to keep the frame upright.
Here, this support is recorded holographically onto the glass plate it should be supporting.  

This is a visual and theoretical 'support' with no physical validity or mechanical rigour.  For the piece to 'stand upright' it needs some other mechanical support, in this case a metal 'G' clamp which is in clear view.

The holographic 'support' is only visible when light falls onto the glass plate on which it has been recorded. If the light is extinguished does the  support stop supporting?

1987

Kettles Yard, Cambridge, UK.

Part of the University of Cambridge, Kettles Yard Gallery has been 

Artists were invited to produce a small piece of work which would used a shelf as its starting point.

The variety of submissions was wide including paintings, sculpture and construction.

Andrew Pepper showed Light Support, a 5" x 4" reflection hologram plate made specially for the exhibition.

More details about Kettles Yard here.

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.

Title: Almost Nine

Date: 2008

Edition: Unique (no longer in existence)

Materials: White cartridge paper

Size: Of watercolour paper: 30 x 30 cm.

Notes: Produced specifically for the Drawing Wall, part of the Drawing Out exhibition in 2008 at the Bonington Gallery, Nottingham.
This became the precursor for two limited edition laser-cut works on paper:  Cut Column and Nine Drawn Spaces

2007

Surface Gallery, Nottingham, UK.

artworkornetwork was installed at the Surface Gallery, Nottingham, as part of the Rules of the Game series of 5 exhibitions.

A screen, on the gallery wall, displays a grid divided into small rectangles. Each one of these could be electronically 'occupied' by someone. There was space for eight thousand one hundred and seventy people.

Visitors to the gallery are asked to take a postcard, located next to the screen, and follow the 'rules' - the instructions which explain how to take part. The first 'rule' is to leave the gallery and find a computer connected to the internet and visit the work's website.

Participants then remotely select a rectangle on the screen, fill this with a pulsating colour, leave their name, location and a website they would like other people to visit. They are then asked to invite 5 of their friends to do the same.

As more people took part, so more rectangles became 'occupied'. The image changed on a daily basis and the work was complete as soon as all of the rectangles were 'occupied'.

There were three ways to take part: Visit the Surface Gallery to collect the instructions, hearing about the instructions by word of mouth, or by being invited by someone who has already taken part.

Social connections 'spread' around the Internet - each person 'digitally' touching the next.

Exhibition dates: 19th April - 19th May