An other-worldly art project: the artists furnishing a Martian house

Bristol project aims to give glimpse of what life in colony on Mars may be like using recycled materials

There is a Martian guitar" manufactured out of recycled pieces of wood and metal with an amp fashioned from a coffee pot. A surprisingly comfortable chair, plus rug and curtains, have been created out of the sort of parachute material a Mars landing craft may have used.

The bedding in the sleeping pods has been decorated with dyes from plants, while a mist shower" has been made using bits of hose and garden irrigation sprays.