Research Catalogue

Andrew Pepper is a senior lecturer in Fine Art at Nottingham Trent University and a visiting lecturer in fine art at the University of Lincoln.  

His practice examines the unsupported mark through holography, projected light and installation which are used as devices to ‘draw‘ in space - constructing seemingly structural, and sometimes sculptural, objects which lack physical presence or tacit solidity.

HIs PhD, awarded by the University of Reading, was one of the early examples of a practice based doctoral submission.  Work, in this case reflection holograms of marks in space ('drawings'), were submitted to the university as the PhD 'thesis' together with a text which supported the practical work.  

Those holograms formed the basis for current research and have been exhibited in group and solo exhibitions internationally. 

Based on his engagement with holography in the visual arts he has been external examiner to a numer of key PhD submission in this area, founded and edited the Creative Holography Index - the International Catalogue for Holography, and has directed both the Shearwater Foundation Holography Program and the Internatioinal Holography Fund (IHF) which supported a broad range of creative activities in holography.

Pepper is a Fulbright and Lional Robbins Memorial Scholar.