Cultivating spaces for extraordinary artists
Moon Palace: Morison Studio
Each element of the interior and exterior of ‘Moon Palace’, formerly a school bus, has been designed to spark audiences’ curiosity and stimulate their observational skills with a collision of creativity, art and science, inspiring visitors to look afresh at the world around them.
“This is the most complex project we’ve ever worked on. We asked ourselves ‘how can we create joy within a piece of work?’. A piece of work that needs not only to look and feel right as a sculpture in its own right, but also has to function practically.” Heather Peak
One huge and one small dome on the roof make way for a powerful telescope and a radio dish to enable ‘Moon Palace’ to function as an astronomical observatory. Audiences will be able to view the galaxy on a clear night and use the radio telescope built by students and staff from the School of Physics and Astronomy which will look at signals comings from different celestial objects from across the Universe.
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Moon Palace is by Ivan Morison and Heather Peak
Website: peakmorison.org
Instagram: @morison_studio
It is an @eastleedsproject and @leeds2023 co-production.
It is commissioned by @we.are.foxglove and LEEDS 2023 for @smeaton300
The work is based on an original idea of a mobile observatory by East Leeds Project.
Developed in collaboration with the School of Physics and Astronomy at the University of Leeds. Funded by @heritagefunduk