living on mars

A Polite but Firm Rebuttal of The Mars Exhibition Project from Professor Alastair Quince-Jam, OBE

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Television Astronaut, author of Is the Moon really made of cheese and former host of Horizons Beyond Tea Time I read with admiration, tinged, I confess, with a certain terrestrial scepticism, the announcement that an art exhibition is being planned for Mars by Pimlico Wilde. Ambition, after all, is the oxygen of civilisation. But oxygen, … Read more

Exhibition Review: “Terra Firma Is So Last Century” – Saki Pentona’s Martian Manifesto in Watercolour and Rocket Science

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In the sleepy fields near Swindon , England’s very own Space Exploration outpost , Watercolour artist and amateur rocket scientist Saki Pentona has launched (quite literally) an exhibition called “Terra Firma Is So Last Century”. It is less a conventional show and more a declaration of interplanetary ambition, featuring Saki’s meticulous plans, blueprints, and watercolours … Read more