Private View at 286

dimensioned...opened last night and, despite flurries of snow in London and heavy weather on the roads into town, the show was well attended with lots of 286 regulars, a bunch of art students (many from the Royal College, where Paul Scattergood is now based) and a smattering of hardcore holographers. Paula Dawson flew in from Lithuania where she had been working on a project with Geola. Ian Lancaster covered the event for Holography News and Inaki Beguiristain drove for 5 hours through the snow to be there. I expect more holography people at the Sunday lunch opening.

Here's a picture of Paula Dawson and Martin Richardson with Martin's new colour stereograms behind.

That's laserist Jim Webb, another 286 regular, to the right.

Lenticulars proved to be the hot seller of the evening with several of Martin Richardson's pieces acquiring a red spot, including his 38"x35" portrait of David Bowie, which went to a Chinese collector for a cool £5K. (I haven't banked the cheque yet). Holograms and paintings haven't started moving yet but the visitors were blown away by the colour stereograms.

Here's Paul Scattergood with some of his

The big surprise of the evening for me was a visit from Ann Sullivan , who was one of the original team behind The Hologram Place, my first gallery, back in 1978. Ann was sent on a buying trip to New York to get work for the opening show and came back with some great material from Dan Schweitzer and other NY pioneers, that was to form the basis for my collection when noone bought them from the gallery. I hadn't seen Ann since 1980 so it was great to catch up.

You can see more installation shots of the show at http://www.gallery286.com/specialevents/dimensioned/install.html