Mariner 9 docks at The Void

Canadian Kelly Richardson is to exhibit her show ‘Mariner 9’ from may 24 to July 18.

Curated by Gregory McCartney, Richardson’s show opens on Saturday, May 24 at 7.30pm. The opening night will be admission free and open to all.

Richardson, one of a new generation of artists working with advanced digital technologies, launches a new exhibition of her large-scale highly-charged, hyper-real cinematic installations at Void in The City Factory Gallery. Mariner 9, Richardson’s 12-metre long panoramic installation of Mars a century or two from now will be the main focus of the exhibition.

The work is a minutely detailed battlefield of real and imagined spacecraft amidst a dust storm. Richardson has taken NASA’s own imagery and technical data of the Martian landscape, and combined it with Terragen, a complex scenery generation software used by the film and gaming industries, stretching its capabilities it to create an uber-realistic red planet, complete its distinctive geology, weather patterns and soundscape.

This work will be shown alongside two other works created by Richardson, Orion Tide and Exiles of the Shattered Star.