August 2018
Making a cosmic impression
...: ArtOfAstronomy I would also encourage you to go back to ROOM issue #1 (7) 2016 and read space artist David Hardy’s article, ‘Why we need space artists’. In ‘Curiosity: The Moment of Creation’, Kara Szathmary notes that scientists are like children...
March 2016
Why We Need Space Artists
...(1952) and Man on the Moon (1953), among others, inspired future generations of space artists, including of course myself. Early space artists In 1950s Britain there was RA (Ralph) Smith, who worked with Arthur C Clarke and the British Interplanetary...
September 2016
Paediatric cancer patients aim for the stars with space inspired art project
... me to retired astronaut Nicole Stott, the first astronaut to make a painting in space, who is now continuing her pioneering career as a space artist and STEM to STEAM advocate. Thus the Space Suit Art Project team came together. Not only did...
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...
February 2018
Journey of inspiration
...that I was pretty ignorant of the history and the artistic legends of space art, a world occupied by some extremely talented and ...heaven! Kim was one of those extremely talented and creative space artists, and a co-founder of the IAAA and the creator ...
07 April 2019
Willy Ley: Prophet of the Space Age
..., Ley is probably best known for his oft-reprinted 1949 book ‘The Conquest of Space’, famously illustrated by space artist Chesley Bonestell. The first two chapters of this book focus on Ley’s formative years in Germany, illustrating particularly...
