Catalogue of oil paintings 2005-8
Gallery
of framed paintings, pastels and watercolours
Born in London in 1963, Robert Pepperell
studied at the Slade School of Art, leaving in 1988.
Throughout the late 1980s and 1990s he exhibited
numerous innovative electronic works, including at Ars
Electronica, the Barbican Gallery, Glasgow Gallery of
Modern Art, the ICA, and the Millennium Dome. He has
also published several influential books, including The
Posthuman Condition (1995 and 2003) and The
Postdigital Membrane (with Michael Punt, 2000),
as well as many articles, reviews and papers. He is
currently Professor of Fine Art at Cardiff School of Art
& Design.
Central to his work is an
investigation of the nature of perceptual consciousness,
carried out through both philosophical inquiry and the
practice of painting and drawing — topics on which he
lectures internationally.
Pepperell’s paintings and drawings are the result of
intensive experimentation in materials and methods
designed to evoke a very specific, though elusive, state
of mind. The works induce a disrupted perceptual
condition in which what we see cannot be matched with
what we know. Instead of a recognisable depiction the
viewer is presented with — what the art historian Dario
Gamboni has called — a ‘potential image’, that is, a
complex multiplicity of possible images, none of which
ever finally resolves.
Paradox 1, 2005,
Oil on panel, 46cm x 60cm
Fragrance, 2005,
Oil on canvas, 30cm x 40cm
Succulus, 2005,
Oil on panel, 122cm x 122cm
Open Day, 2005,
Oil on canvas, 36cm x 45cm
Became, 2005,
Oil on panel, 30cm x 40cm
St Jerome, 2005,
Chalk on paper, 42cm x 59cm
The Spies, 2005,
Chalk on paper,42cm x 59cm
The Seminary, 2002,
Graphite on paper, 42cm x 53cm
Exodus, 2002,
Chalk on paper, 42cm x 53cm
Taken, 2005,
Chalk on paper, 42cm x 59cm