I’m a fan of museums and galleries and often plan both my local and international travel around what’s on. Good excuse to be somewhere, right? But not so easy just now. I live in New Zealand. Our borders are currently closed to unserious jaunting and gallivanting. We can’t get out, but neither can travelling exhibitions get in. Our largest city went from being closed at its invisible city gates today to joining the current level of restrictions. Planning anything, including domestic flights, is a bit of a risk. Holidays are just not feeling like a thing.

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.

he Barry Lett Multiples are a set of 12 prints on paper sold in New Zealand in 1968.

Auckland art dealer Barry Lett produced the set with the idea of making modern art accessible to a wider audience by at a low cost - especially the education market. He invited 12 artists, some established, and some up and coming, to contribute to the project. They were printed on paper (mostly screen-printed), and came stacked in a single glass-fronted wooden frame so that they could be rotated for viewing at will.