August 2024 – bright new dome
When I first encountered the Twin Dome nearly 10 years ago, the general appearance of the exterior was very much one of a forgotten and somewhat neglected building. The painting of the neon spectrum in 2018 shifted the…
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Early August 2024 – much more colour-field
For the start of August I’m now straight into building the next installation of “Beyond the Horizon” which is to be a new collaboration with the Royal Society of Edinburgh. This will be where I finally get to use a…
6th July – Conversations in Breath
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…
14th June 2024 – colour-field opens
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…
7th June 2024 – opening in one week
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…
May 2024 – the start of colour-field
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…
9th March 2024 – Open Night comes around again
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…
Summer 2023 – making an ambush
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…
21st June 2023 – in colour at the Summer Solstice
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…
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…