{"id":106277,"date":"2025-10-29T02:24:12","date_gmt":"2025-10-29T02:24:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/106277\/"},"modified":"2025-10-29T02:24:12","modified_gmt":"2025-10-29T02:24:12","slug":"visitors-take-in-big-mars-sculpture-at-truro-cathedral","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/106277\/","title":{"rendered":"Visitors take in ‘big’ Mars sculpture at Truro Cathedral"},"content":{"rendered":"

A 7m (21ft) wide sculpture of Mars on display at Truro Cathedral has been providing lots of school half-term fun. <\/p>\n

The artwork called Mars: War and Peace was created by Luke Jerram and follows his Gaia installation, which was exhibited at Truro Cathedral in 2023<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The artwork featured detailed NASA images of the planet and at an approximate scale of 1:1million, each centimetre of the internally-lit sculpture representing 10km (6.2 miles) of the surface of the planet.<\/p>\n

The piece is on show until 2 November, with tickets to it also offering free entry to the cathedral. <\/p>\n

One boy who spoke to the BBC while with his family said: “I didn’t expect it to be that big.”<\/p>\n

There has been a range of ticketed events and activities accompanying the installation, with a party due on Saturday to herald the end of the installation. <\/p>\n

Other events include a organ performance of music from the movie Interstellar by Roger Sayer, the original organist on the film soundtrack, on 28 October. <\/p>\n

Mr Sayer said: “The people who come to my events are often people who would never set foot in a church, but they are; and would never come to an organ concert, but they are.<\/p>\n

“In a way it’s sort of bridging that gap, and there is a sort of revival of younger people coming to the organ now.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A 7m (21ft) wide sculpture of Mars on display at Truro Cathedral has been providing lots of school…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":106278,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[442,498,499,500,501,156,111,139,69],"class_list":["post-106277","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-arts-and-design","tag-arts","tag-arts-and-design","tag-artsanddesign","tag-artsdesign","tag-design","tag-entertainment","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-nz"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/106277","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=106277"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/106277\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/106278"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=106277"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=106277"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=106277"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}