HOLOGRAMS 2 in Rugby

Almost 4 years after 'HOLOGRAMS, the first 60 years' showed there, curators at the Rugby  Art Gallery & Museum, in the city where Dennis Gabor conceived of holography, invited me back to exhibit a selection from the follow-up show 'HOLOGRAMS 2'.

The gallery could not accommodate all the transmission works I exhibited at other venues but we selected 40 of the best pieces by an international body of holographers, including pulsed portraiture, multi-colour  reflection  and rainbow holograms, and groups of full colour Denisyuk and Digital works.

Exhibited for the first time were two pieces by Paula Dawson, made in association with Geola,

and a stunning full colour Jewel Box by Colour Holographic.

Steve Benton's 'Crystal Beginnings' was the poster image so I included a small embossed portrait of Steve at the introduction of the Rainbow holograms section.

And, as usual, I filled a couple of display cases with examples of applied holography. This time one was devoted to embossed holograms and another to dichromate and photopolymer

If you can't make it to Rugby, you can see a slideshow of the full HOLOGRAMS 2 exhibition here and if you think that your local museum might be interested in taking it, please let me know. The show must go on!

PS  Until the end of August there is also a fabulous exhibition in the main gallery : The Art of Social Enterprise, featuring contemporary recycled artefacts from the knowtrash collection.

Well worth the detour!