Following on from Luke Jerram's other celestial artworks, the Museum of the Moon and Gaia (both previously on display at St John’s), we are delighted to showcase his latest exhibition of Mars
All events are free and we will be hosting a concert every evening.

Measuring seven metres in diameter, the artwork features 120dpi detailed NASA imagery of the Martian surface. At around one million times smaller than the actual planet, each centimetre of the internally lit spherical sculpture represents 10 kilometres of the surface of Mars.

The artwork allows us to view Mars from the air, as though we are a satellite mapping and studying the surface in perfect detail. Every valley, crater, volcano and mountain is laid bare for us to inspect.  The artwork transports us to this desert wasteland, to imagine what it’s like to step foot on this incredible planet. 

“Mars follows on from my other touring astronomical artworks Museum of the Moon and Gaia, and allows a close encounter with the martian planet. I hope that visitors will feel transported to its inhospitable desert wasteland and in comparison, really value our life on Earth.” - Luke Jerram

Click here for tickets for Mars: War and Peace

Schedule Below for the Upcoming Days

22 July Saturday
1:30pm Lunchtime concert: Holst’s Planets: Click here for tickets
9.00pm Evening concert: Organ – Florence Robinson (former pupil at Cardinal
Vaughan School and about to be Choral Scholar at Trinity College, Oxford)

23 July Sunday
6.30pm Sung service with Ensemble Pro Victoria, with guest preacher Mary Gregory, Canon for Arts and Reconciliation, Coventry Cathedral
8.00pm Organ recital - Andrew Wells

24 July Monday
9.00pm Evening concert: Grand Union Orchestra (four-piece acoustic group
playing inter-cultural music)

25 July Tuesday
9.00pm Evening concert: Alla Sirenko – Ukrainian Cultural Centre (piano)

26 July Wednesday
9.00pm Evening Concert: Konstantin Lapshin and Joaquin Sofredini – pianist and counter tenor

27 July Thursday
9.00pm Evening Concert: Andreana Chan (organ – organ scholar at Pembroke, Cambridge)

28 July Friday
9.00pm Evening Concert: Coniston Consort – four trombonists from Guildhall

29 July Saturday
time tbc Lunchtime Concert: Endelienta Baroque; Handel’s Water Music and
Bach’s Double Violin Concerto: Click here for tickets
9.00pm Evening Concert: Hamish Dustagheer (organ)

30 July Sunday
6.30pm Service with Ensemble Pro Victoria
8.00pm Evening Concert: Mark Denza (regular organist at St John’s)