Michelle Stuart (born 1933) is an American artist, best-known for her involvement with Land Art in the 1970s and her use of a variety of different materials, with themes relating to nature, navigation and space.

“Drawing on Space” forms part of the artist’s recent body of work, in which she arranges photographs (archival or newly shot) in a grid system, to create poetic and narrative pieces. Here, Stuart mixes celestial and made-made lightshows - images of galaxies, nebulae and fireworks - to suggest the contemplative but also euphoric nature of stargazing. Some of the grid’s individual components show telescopic or photographic antique lenses resting on these images, inviting us to reflect on the importance of both the telescope and the camera in the development of astronomical knowledge.