Labour of Space Love

A life-sized Buzz Aldrin looks out over my studio in Melbourne. Space is a topic that has fascinated me forever - perhaps growing up under the vast carpet of the Milky Way in NZ caused that, or perhaps it was being part of the Apollo generation? Completed over 120 hours as a tribute to Buzz Aldrin, on a vast 2m+ canvas that was it’s own challenge to construct and wrangle into a comfortable painting situation, we love it.

I have some old photos from the process of painting on this monumental canvas. Would I do it again? There’s a question… like most artists, I was enjoying an arc of work - on the theme of space in this period, which we know largely through photography, not painting. I suppose my dream was people might buy them, but they were not terribly popular at the time, so … I moved on.