Pearl John
Artist Working with Holography
Friday 22 August 2014
A Virtual Artist - Exhibition ready and waiting.
Friday 1 August 2014
A Virtual Artist
I'm frantically working towards my next exhibition: A Virtual Artist: An exhibition of holographic artworks - 26- August-26 September 2014. Special Collections Gallery, University of Southampton, Southampton SO17 1BJ, UK.
The Virtual Artist exhibit contains a selection of the artist’s own art collection of holograms dating back to the 1990s – a retrospective exhibition which also includes current work. The Virtual Artist includes the artist’s own ‘Special Collection’ of objects and holographic artworks which have been gathered to form an archive of a family history. Some elements of the exhibit are autobiographical, while other elements are fictitious.
The collection consists of a mixture of personal items/artefacts and photographs belonging to a
number of family members, which are overlaid by translucent holograms. The objects range in
date from the 1900’s until the present day. The holograms contain text and images which recede
into the substance of the object they are paired with – or escape the surface of the holographic
film. The objects hold memories and stories and the holographic images make visible the invisible.
The eight lenticular images shown in the Level 4 Gallery space were exhibited at the Royal
Society’s Summer Science Exhibition in July 2012 and have not been shown since. The data which
inspired these animated art works was provided by scientists and astronomers working with lasers,
magnetism, astronomy and particle physics at the University of Southampton. John explored different
time intervals from “pico-second” laser pulses - produced in trillionths of a second - to black hole
events occurring millions of years ago.
The exhibit also includes Typhoon an 10”x8”hologram produced in collaboration with artist
Ya-Ling Huang for “The Delight of the Chinese Character Festival” in Taiwan in 2010, a version of
which is currently on show in the MIT Museum, USA.
A V I R T U A L A R T I S T
Acknowledgements: Prof Martin Richardson, Prof Ernest Edmonds and Nick Higgett (De Montfort University), Prof Malcolm Coe, Prof Phil Charles, Dr John Nesbit, Dr Tony Bird, Elena Kammann, Dr Gaby Slavcheva, Dr Matteo Franchin and Prof Hans Fangohr, Dr Anna Scaife, Dr Alexander Belyaev and Dr Sadie Jones, Gareth Savage, Justin Harris, Anne-Marrie Steel, Laura Joy, Fran Lunn and Jane Birkin (University of Southampton), Clare Harvey (SEPnet), the John & Morris Family, the
Gravett Family and Martin Gardiner.
The Virtual Artist exhibit contains a selection of the artist’s own art collection of holograms dating back to the 1990s – a retrospective exhibition which also includes current work. The Virtual Artist includes the artist’s own ‘Special Collection’ of objects and holographic artworks which have been gathered to form an archive of a family history. Some elements of the exhibit are autobiographical, while other elements are fictitious.The collection consists of a mixture of personal items/artefacts and photographs belonging to a
number of family members, which are overlaid by translucent holograms. The objects range in
date from the 1900’s until the present day. The holograms contain text and images which recede
into the substance of the object they are paired with – or escape the surface of the holographic
film. The objects hold memories and stories and the holographic images make visible the invisible.
The eight lenticular images shown in the Level 4 Gallery space were exhibited at the Royal
Society’s Summer Science Exhibition in July 2012 and have not been shown since. The data which
inspired these animated art works was provided by scientists and astronomers working with lasers,
magnetism, astronomy and particle physics at the University of Southampton. John explored different
time intervals from “pico-second” laser pulses - produced in trillionths of a second - to black hole
events occurring millions of years ago.
The exhibit also includes Typhoon an 10”x8”hologram produced in collaboration with artist
Ya-Ling Huang for “The Delight of the Chinese Character Festival” in Taiwan in 2010, a version of
which is currently on show in the MIT Museum, USA.
A V I R T U A L A R T I S T
Acknowledgements: Prof Martin Richardson, Prof Ernest Edmonds and Nick Higgett (De Montfort University), Prof Malcolm Coe, Prof Phil Charles, Dr John Nesbit, Dr Tony Bird, Elena Kammann, Dr Gaby Slavcheva, Dr Matteo Franchin and Prof Hans Fangohr, Dr Anna Scaife, Dr Alexander Belyaev and Dr Sadie Jones, Gareth Savage, Justin Harris, Anne-Marrie Steel, Laura Joy, Fran Lunn and Jane Birkin (University of Southampton), Clare Harvey (SEPnet), the John & Morris Family, the
Gravett Family and Martin Gardiner.
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