Helios

 The latest of Luke Jerram's travelling exhibitions, Helios, has been moving around National Trust properties.  As we'd seen both his Museum of the Moon and Gaia installations  at Derby Cathedral we wanted to see this latest attraction and we found it was to be on display at Kedleston Hall, near Derby.  

We booked our timed tickets, necessary as it was showing in quite a small space compared to the other two.

Helios looked rather wonderful in the domed Salon on the first floor of the Hall.  The sun sculpture is named after the ancient Greek god of the sun.

There were seats around the outside of the Salon and bean bags underneath the installation. Helios is scaled so that each centimetre represents 2,000km of the sun's surface.

The accompanying music, by Duncan Speakman and Sarah Anderson, was calm and soothing, and there was a lovely atmosphere as people moved gently and thoughtfully around the room.  The installation has been touring National Trust properties through this year and Kedleston was it's final showing.

I've added below photos of both of the other installations.

 

The Museum of the Moon at Derby Cathedral October 2019

Gaia at Derby Cathedral October 2022

I've just noticed that we visited all three in the month of October as we saw Helios on 29th October.  The exhibition closed on 2nd November.

Helios was part of the Diwali celebration held at Kedleston each year.  This would take a whole new post but in lieu I've added two or three photos to give some idea of how impressive the festival of light was.

All for now.