A picture of Dr Abigail Ruth Freeman, Director of Research for Society at Research Ireland and Rebecca Wilson, Senior Executive of the Education and Public Engagement team at Research Ireland looking at the SOLARIS installation.

A brand-new creative project from the collective Axolotl, Solaris took audiences on a journey through the life cycle of a star, all the way from the star nurseries where a star is born to its death and the formation of a pulsar. The kinetic sculpture is a large motorised expandable sphere made up of thousands of individually mappable LEDs, which displays beautiful visual effects accompanied by voiceovers from very special guests telling the story of this journey.

Solaris had its world premiere in Cork’s Marina Market and then made its way to Galway’s St. Nicholas’s Collegiate Church.

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Dr Christian Ginski, University of Galway

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Dr Mark Kennedy, University College Cork

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Dr Donna Rodgers-Lee, DIAS Dunsink Observatory

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