In another landmark in the progress of the Twin Dome, this week marks the opening of “Conversations in Breath” by Dundee based artist Wendy Bell – our first guest artist at the Twin Dome. Wendy’s exhibition, a unique…
Colour-field opened to the public on the evening of Friday the 14th of June at 4pm. We’re now just about ready to go again for our second colour-field weekend – our solstice weekend – beginning tomorrow on Friday the…
With one week to go until the public opening of the new collaboration colour-field, the interior space of the twin dome is noticeably and incrementally building in light levels with each day. This is not to do with any…
After nearly 20 entries of trying to catch up with all that’s happened in the life of the Twin Dome, I’m finally up-to-date and ready to continue the Twin Dome blog in the present tense. Very much planning that it…
It felt great to be back in the groove of being involved in another Open Night in March 2024 – now two in a row since the shutdown of the pandemic. The challenge as far as the Twin Dome was concerned was that the…
The most satisfying part of re-opening the old Twin Dome observatory is in getting visitors along to see the new space, as many as possible. This is not just during the now well established observatory open nights in…
The northern side of the interior of the Twin Dome The final configuring of the interior part of ‘in colour’ relied on bringing together three distinct elements at one moment in the middle of Summer 2023. Firstly, the…
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…
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…
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…