Moon
Sept 24, 2024 - March 17, 2025
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To mark the Museum’s 10th Anniversary, Luke Jerram’s Moon – the centrepiece in the Museum’s most successful exhibition to date, The Moon: A Voyage Through Time (2019) – returns by popular demand. The illuminated sculpture seeks to fill us with calm, hope and wonder in complex times, and to remind us of the many ways we are all connected.
Through a collaboration with the Astrogeology Science Centre in Arizona, detailed NASA imagery of the lunar surface was transformed into the skin of the sculpture. Scaled to fit within the Museum’s galleries, each centimetre of the artwork captures approximately 5 kilometres of the moon’s surface. Jerram’s interest in the moon began while living in Bristol, UK, which has the second highest tidal variation in Europe. The scientific, cultural and, artistic dimensions of the moon have fascinated the artist ever since. To him “the amazing thing about the moon is that it acts as a cultural mirror. Every culture has different stories and mythologies to tell about the moon.”
About the Artist
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Luke Jerram