{"id":449220,"date":"2026-02-02T14:03:08","date_gmt":"2026-02-02T14:03:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/449220\/"},"modified":"2026-02-02T14:03:08","modified_gmt":"2026-02-02T14:03:08","slug":"luke-jerram-sun-sculpture-heading-to-wakefield-for-summer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/449220\/","title":{"rendered":"Luke Jerram Sun sculpture heading to Wakefield for summer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">A giant model of the Sun is to illuminate Wakefield later this year as part of a series of space-themed events.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Helios, a touring artwork by UK artist Luke Jerram, will headline the programme at Wakefield Exchange (WX), which runs from 12 June to 6 September.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The artwork, which is about 7m (23ft) in diameter, features detailed imagery of the Sun&#8217;s surface, with each centimetre of the internally lit spherical sculpture representing 1,429 miles (2,300km) of the Sun&#8217;s surface.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The installation is a fusion of solar imagery, sunlight and a specially created surround sound composition by Duncan Speakman and Sarah Anderson.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A giant model of the Sun is to illuminate Wakefield later this year as part of a series&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":449221,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[76,354,355,49,48,356,75],"class_list":["post-449220","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-arts-and-design","tag-arts","tag-arts-and-design","tag-artsanddesign","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-design","tag-entertainment"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/449220","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=449220"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/449220\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/449221"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=449220"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=449220"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=449220"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}