Event Details
- Location: Exeter Cathedral
- Address: The Cloisters, Exeter, Devon, EX1 1HS
- Start date: 01st February 2024
- End date: 28th February 2024
- Times: Varies
- Entry fee: £6, concessions available
Experience artist Luke Jerram’s famous installation, Mars: War and Peace in the stunning nave of Exeter Cathedral, with sound composition by BAFTA award-winning composer, Dan Jones. Featuring the sounds of seas, deserts and clips from NASA missions to Mars, it also incorporates the sounds of distant bombing and people marching, as if to war.
Measuring seven metres in diameter, the artwork features 120dpi detailed NASA imagery* of the Martian surface. At an approximate scale of 1:1 million, each centimetre of the internally lit spherical sculpture represents 10 kilometres of the surface of Mars.
Mars was named by the ancient Romans for their god of war because its reddish colour was reminiscent of blood.
Photo by David Parry, Press Association at Kensington & Chelsea Festival