Art for Artemis – Elsa, Matilda, Ahlagi, Paloma

ESA has teamed up with eight art schools around Europe and challenged their students to produce art inspired by Artemis, lunar exploration and the European Service Module that will provide the power, propulsion, water and air for the astronauts on board.

Students made 24 artworks that we will showcase on the Orion blog over the coming months. Using a variety of techniques and from many different cultural backgrounds, the artists have thought about what human spaceflight to the Moon and beyond signifies.

This artwork was made by Elsa, Matilda, Ahlagi and Paloma from the Forsbergs skola: Copywriting and Graphic Design in Sweden.

"Seven point nine billion people worldwide. Seven point nine billion people with different lives, stories and beliefs. But no matter our differences, the times when we have accomplished something, we have held, helped and supported each other. And that makes this lunar journey unique in history. It is not a race against one another, it is a race for one another.

Because remember, we are all under the same Moon.

The moon is so much more than what you see at first sight. Our artwork? The same."

As the only place that humans have seen with their own eyes throughout history, our Moon features heavily in world cultures. The Artemis programme, itself named after the ancient Greek goddess of the Moon, will take humans back to our natural satellite and, in doing so, will become memorialised in popular culture.

All the artworks are available on ESA's Orion blog with interviews with the artists.