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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
Left – Twin Dome interior art installation for Open Night Nov. 2018. Right – Detail of installation. On Saturday the 31st of November 2018 the interior of the Twin Dome was used as a public exhibition space for the…
Left – The Twin Dome and Neon emission spectrum. Right – Original drawings for the Twin Dome As it turned out The Shine Project continued with new interest and new opportunities beyond the end of the International Year…
Left – Tim Fitzpatrick, Bede Williams and Anne-Marie Weijmans. Right – Shine Project art installation “code for everything”. A seed of an idea for the Twin Dome Project, or at least the possibility of making use of the…
From 1983 to 1992 the Twin Dome at the Observatory was the home of the Twin Photometric Telescope – two 40 cm telescopes on a mount, a telescope tailor-made for high-precision photometric monitoring with one telescope…