March 2016
Why We Need Space Artists
...There will always be a need for artists (quite apart from the aesthetic aspects; space art can be at least as beautiful as terrestrial art) because from space probes we only see the whole object – planet, moon, comet - or close-ups of it, as it looks...
March 2017
Space for art: Quilting in orbit
... Moon and when we make those first steps on Mars we will be wearing space suits. As we’ve seen, space suits designed for use in space have inspired space suit art, but they have also inspired fashion designers to think differently about our...
May 2018
Woman on the Moon
... I would like to send artworks to the Moon and make that cultural footprint. One of my smaller art projects includes a series of ‘Space Rocks’ which are Earth rocks with the names of other planets and moons blasted into...
January 2016
Space for Art
... “delighted” that she had become the first astronaut of the Space Shuttle/Space Station era to choose art as her next step in life Everything about the experience of flying in space exceeded the very high expectations I had for it. And...
June 2018
Archaeologist of the future
...still is. Over the years, however, the development of space systems has allowed the gradual emergence of an economic ... to free up some time. Time which we partly devote to art and philosophy. Time which we also greatly devote to developing new ...
February 2016
Space for art
... make these dreams a reality. The article on the following pages, ‘Why do we need space artists?’ by British space artist David A Hardy, looks at the history of space art and argues that, despite modern digital imagery, there will always be a place...
