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...
October 2024
The Human Spaceship - Off Balance
... based in northeast England. Since 2007, she has devised and presented specialist space art projects and outreach activities, collaborating with many UK universities and art/science institutions. In 2019, she was the first artist to win the...
May 2024
The universe in acrylics - an artist’s passion
...mind the value of making a good first impression in the increasingly crowded space industry. Art-world beckons I knew I wanted to contribute to the visual atmosphere of space technology companies and I could do this by making paintings I believe that...
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...
February 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...
