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June 2023 – in colour, in nature

The flowers around the base of the south wall Before the final transformation of the interior space, I wanted to make sure that as much “in colour” as possible could also find its way beyond the walls of the Twin Dome…

May 2023 – in colour: on the inside

The inside of the Twin Dome at various stages of its transformation. As mentioned in the earlier blog – Letting the light in – for practical reasons the new window really needed to be installed facing directly due east…

April 2023 – in colour: on the outside

Izzy Donaldson and Emily Frank painting “in colour’ on the Twin Dome With our new start to life in the Twin Dome, largely thanks to extended funding from the Shine Project, the building would now start to experience a…

24th March 2023 – Open Night is back

Interior views of the Twin Dome on Open Night 2023 By early 2023, with our fabulous new window installed and ready to transform the space with light, myself and Anne-Marie were turning our thoughts to the summer and…

December 2022 – Letting the light in

Exterior and interior views of the newly installed Twin Dome window Two days before Christmas 2022 School of Physics and Astronomy technician Chris Watson managed to astound me and Observatory Director Aleks Scholz by…

February 2021 – Waiting for the thaw

Google earth street view of the Twin Dome in February 2021 As with so much of our day-to-day activity during the pandemic years, the previously steady emergence of the Twin Dome as a new space for art and science was…

Open night 2019 – Emission line crazy

Left – detail of Open Night poster. Right – artwork photographed in sunlight Looking back on the sequence of events in the recent evolution of the Twin Dome, it’s been something of a juggling act to try to avoid…

11th September 2019 – More big Neon

Fabric Neon sign at the observatory, University of St Andrews The following year, back at St Andrews and the Twin Dome, we decided to revisit the big Neon sign theme one last time (perhaps) and at a scale that would…

April 2019 – Inspired by the Twin Dome

Left – The Neon sign on the roof of the old courthouse 2019. Right – H-alpha line in the desert. In 2019 the Shine project received an invite from the Las Cruces Space Festival to make new site-specific art for the…