David Begbie
Internationally renowned sculptor David Begbie has worked almost exclusively with the human form throughout his career. Since his first pioneering solo show in London 1984 a whole new genre of steel-mesh art has emerged and continues to grow. He is the master of his medium wire-mesh and his work speaks for itself.
David Begbie discovered the particular properties of steel and bronze-mesh as an art student in 1977. Since then his work has been exhibited globally and has been an enormous inspiration to many people, including architects, designers, photographers, world of theatre and dance as well as to other artists. His sculpture is included in numerous museum, corporate and private art collections around the world.
Cassiom
Cassiom is a French art house that combines astronomy and design. Their cabinet is full of playful and futuristic objects of curiosity, all born of a passion for the Cosmos. Experience a new way of seeing the universe with unusual, yet beautiful decorative furniture or art created exclusively by some of France’s leading artists. Items have educational and scientific content that renders the universe of astronomic discoveries accessible. Cosmic adventures for every day.
Ian Cion
In 2015, Ian started the Spacesuit Art Project, in cooperation with astronauts and cosmonauts from multiple international space agencies, including NASA, the European Space Agency, the Canadian Space Agency, the Japanese Space Agency and the Russian Space Federation, and children undergoing cancer treatment in pediatric centers around the globe. Working with ILC Dover, who have manufactured spacesuits for NASA since the Apollo era, Ian helped turn the artwork collected in patient art studios he led in pediatric cancer hospitals into replica art spacesuits. This project led to the formation of several organizations, including the Space for Art Foundation, for which Ian serves as a founding director along with Astronaut Nicole Stott.
Two of his art spacesuits have been sent to the International Space Station - the first recorded art exhibition in space.
Kevin Christison
Kevin Christison is an accomplished figurative sculptor and designer. His works grace many prestigious public and private collections, including the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art. He moved his studio practice from San Francisco to Thailand following his tenure as a Fulbright Scholar in sculpture at Silpakorn University in Bangkok. He was commissioned by the Aldrin Family Foundation to design and produce the impressive recycled glass and gold-gilded awards given to space legends at the three Apollo anniversary gala events at the Kennedy Space Center Visitor Complex.
Sophie Farrar
Sophie Farrar is a ceramic artist living and working in Staffordshire, England. She recently returned home after 5 years of living, studying and working in San Francisco. Her pieces are produced in porcelain and stoneware using traditional hand building techniques, manipulating slabs of clay to piece together her forms. From concept to realisation, great importance is placed on process, often using painstaking techniques to achieve her unique texture and pattern.
Roger Fishman
Roger Fishman is an artist and adventurer who seeks to challenge and inspire others to live their lives in a more full, present and purposeful way. With a focus on photographing the environment, he gives voice to Mother Earth through aerial photography. Roger hopes to inspire others to take a more active stance in the future of our planet.
Two of his art spacesuits have been sent to the International Space Station - the first recorded art exhibition in space.
Jonlouis Gonzales
Jonlouis Gonzales spent his childhood growing up on the Space Coast, Florida. Curious and watching endless rocket launches, this propelled him into a successful career in ‘Space Art’ from a very young age. Mentored by astronaut Nicole Stott, his work is highly popular among the space community. His astronaut collection even exhibited at Kennedy Space Center which caught the attention of some influential global collectors. This led to an invitation to feature his work at both the Apollo 8 and Apollo 11 50th anniversary events. Jonlouis hopes his art inspires other young artists to have the courage to use art for positive change.
Mike Jackson
Mike Jackson is a darkroom artist and a leading exponent of cameraless photography, with work held at the National Gallery of Art in Washington and numerous private collections. He works with traditional photographic paper in a darkened studio and makes his work using controlled rays of light that react with the silver gelatin paper once developed in chemicals. This way of working and his ethic regarding the constant need to discover and experiment has given him a unique aesthetic producing immediately recognizable results.
Peter Max
Peter Max is a visionary pop culture icon and artist of the 1960s. He is known for his bold, cosmic ‘60s style and for celebrating American culture and principles. He has painted for six U.S. presidents and created a limited-edition of prints to commemorate the 30th anniversary of the Apollo 11 Moon landing. An iconic take on iconic images – and signed by the icons themselves.
Michael Najjar
Visual artist Michael Najjar communicates the future vision of science with an interest in how fantasy and reality merge. He questions the boundaries between artist and scientist and his aim is to be the first artist to travel to space with Virgin Galactic. He fuses science, art, and technology into visions and utopias of future social orders emerging under the impact of cutting-edge technologies.
His Outer Space series deals with the latest developments in space exploration and the way they will shape our future life on our planet, in Earth’s near orbit, and on other planets.
Rebecca Rose
Rebecca Rose creates exquisite wearable art in the form of detailed, whimsical, small sculptures cast in precious metals. Her bronze collection was included in the Andy Warhol Museum and she has received prominent art grants sponsored by the Andrew Mellon Foundation and the Ford Foundation. She was commissioned by Aldrin Art Space to create 4 new works to commemorate the 50th anniversary of the Apollo 11 landing and she’ll be working on an exclusive new “Spacescape Series” for spring 2021.
Helen Schell
Award-winning, US-born Helen Schell is a visual artist and space science educator based in the UK. Her artworks, inspired by 21st century space science, take the form of large installations and paintings. Her projects involve extensive research and result in international partnerships with space centers, spaceflight scientists, science museums, astronomical societies, space medicine centers and universities. She presents her specialist topic, the Moon, to large audiences with STEAM workshops all around the world.
Her artwork examines vision & visual perception in altered gravity environments. It employs optical illusions to make the spectator feel ‘off balance’ as they must collaborate with the destabilising images.
Lee Wilson
E. Lee Wilson, Jr. creates science-based artworks to inspire and introduce concepts in astronomy, planetary science, and even astrophysics, to audiences of all ages. Lee has shown his ‘Cosmos Series’ artwork at the Kennedy Space Center Visitor Complex, the Eastern Florida State College Planetarium and Observatory, Spacefest, in Tucson, Arizona, and for the Space for Art Foundation and Constellation Foundation, as well as in several fine art galleries in the southeastern United States. He has recently created a new science-based art exhibition, "Visions of the Cosmos", for the Museum of Science and Industry (MOSI) in Tampa, Florida.
Ron Woods
Ron Woods is a retired NASA space suit technician and space artist. He worked for 48 years in the space program and suited up crew members of the Apollo 8, Apollo 11 and Apollo 15. He re-lives those days through his detailed paintings and prints of space suits - what he refers to as the “most beautiful hardware imaginable.”