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Luke Jerram's sculpture will one on display at Exeter Cathedral next month
Celebrated artist Luke Jerram will display an out-of-this-world sculpture at Exeter Cathedral next month.
His Mars: War and Peace is a seven-metre replica of the Red Planet, created using high-resolution NASA imagery of the Martian surface.
It is the latest artwork by Luke to be displayed in Exeter Cathedral, following on from his other astronomical installations, Museum of the Moon and Gaia.
With each centimetre of the artwork’s internally lit spherical sculpture representing ten kilometres of the surface of Mars (an approximate scale of 1:1million), Luke's creation is to be suspended from Exeter Cathedral’s famous stone vault nave ceiling from 1 to 28 February. A newly created sound composition by BAFTA and Ivor Novello award-winning composer Dan Jones, featuring the sounds of seas, deserts and clips from NASA missions to Mars, will accompany the sculpture.
It follows sculptor Peter Walker’s ‘Light of Hope Star’ five-metre star-shaped steel structure which has been suspended from the Cathedral’s famous stone vault ceiling.
War and Peace will be at Exeter Cathedral from Thursday 1 to Wednesday 28 February. Tickets cost £6 per person including cathedral admission, with free admission for under 18s within a family group. Advance booking is recommended.
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