Bec Bigg-Wither is a Canberra artist specialising in photomontage based on historical imagery. She draws mostly on the human, metaphysical and visual drama of early US space exploration to consider the role of collective beliefs in an age of relativism.

For her current PhD research, Bec is investigating how NASA’s Apollo moon-landing program functioned as a monumental work of cultural diplomacy; and how the political and cultural agendas it propagated have shifted over the intervening half-century.