Boy George Hologram at the V&A

I have lent a Richmond Holographic Studios hologram of Boy George to the V&A Museum in London for their new exhibition on Postmodernism. If that wasn't cool enough, they have made a T-shirt of it for their shop!

Hologram Portraits and Figure Studies

You can see some documentation of a small exhibition I had in my London gallery this Summer, including Pulse portraits, stereograms, digital holograms and lenticulars, on the hologram collection website. There is a link to a short YouTube video clip.

http://www.jrholocollection.com/gallery/July_Aug2011/index.html

Looking at Laser Transmission Holograms

My old friend, the laserist Jim Webb, came over for an afternoon of viewing some transmission holograms in my collection.

We started with some recent acquisitions from The National Physical Laboratory www.jrholocollection.com/collection/npl.html

- a number of pieces made in the 1960s, which they have kindly donated to the collection then went through works by Gary Cullen  www.jrholocollection.com/collection/cullen.html

Paula Dawson  www.jrholocollection.com/collection/dawson.html

Margaret Benyon www.jrholocollection.com/collection/benyon.html (scroll to bottom of page)

Tung Jeong  www.jrholocollection.com/collection/jeong.html

ending up with probably the most precious piece in my collection, Equivocal Forks I by Harriet Casdin-Silver www.jrholocollection.com/collection/casdin.html

Jim being Jim, we viewed it with Red Green and Blue beams though , of course, it is usually shown in red.

We were joined towards the end of the afternoon by the Portuguese holographer, Isabel Azevedo, who is having a show with me at Gallery 286 next month, and we all agreed that we were looking at history.

The idea of a laser transmission show is slowly taking shape and I am on the look-out for significant pieces , if anyone would like to make suggestions.

Holograms 2 Goes to Woodstock (UK)

The Oxfordshire Museum in Woodstock is the new venue for HOLOGRAMS 2 and, if anything, the work looks even better there.


It is a very attractive English village on the doorstep of Blenheim Palace, so anyone fancying a day out in the countryside could combine a visit to both, rather different, attractions.


This is the website for the museum www.oxfordshire.gov.uk

and, as always, there is more information at http://www.jrholocollection.com/


I hope some of you get the chance to visit

Historic Hologram

Gary Cullen's hologram of Maiman's laser can now be seen on the BBC website, 'A History of the World' - a spin-off from their recent radio programme A History of the World in 100 Objects, made in association with the British Museum.
www.bbc.co.uk/ahistoryoftheworld/

I thought it just had to be there.

Holograms 2: A New Exhibition

Following the success of ‘HOLOGRAMS, the first 60 years’, the exhibition I have been touring in the UK for the past couple of years, the Buckinghamshire County Museum in Aylesbury asked me to create a new show for their visitors this summer. http://www.buckscc.gov.uk/bcc/museum/county_museum.page

Drawing further on my collection, I am presenting 70 holograms distributed over two galleries, and a selection of holographic ‘artefacts’ in display cases.

The exhibition runs until the end of October and is then expected to tour to some of the venues that hosted the previous exhibition.

For those unable to visit the show, there is a slide show and some video documentation at http://www.jrholocollection.com/gallery/special/Holograms2/index.html

And for anyone wanting some hands on experience of making holograms, Pearl John http://www.pearljohn.co.uk  will be giving a workshop at the museum on Saturday October 9th.

Cost £12.00 per person. She is also giving a talk and demonstration that evening, followed by refreshments. Tickets £7.50
Please apply to the museum for either event E:museum@buckscc.gov.uk  T: 01296 331441

On September the 29th at 12.30 I will be giving a guided tour of the exhibition so, if any of you can make it, it would be a pleasure to see you.

Some Short Videos

I took a few short video clips, showing highlights of the HOLOGRAMS 2 exhibition, which I am adding the YouTube links for here:

www.youtube.com/watch?v=HHM5DRtZL_c

www.youtube.com/watch?v=6WjJrMNZLzg

www.youtube.com/watch?v=KQYYzWEWEFo

www.youtube.com/watch?v=a4J0QlLRRig

I gather that no one has the same attention span they used to any more, but I think these might be manageable...