Zita Martins
Date
2013
Sitter
Zita Carla Torrão Pinto Martins (1979, Portugese) , Exobiologist
Creator
Garry Kennard (1948, British) , Artist
Object type
Material
Dimensions
height (print): 420mm
width (print): 300mm
width (print): 300mm
Subject
Description
Half-length portrait of Zita Martins, seated at a table, her forearms resting upon its surface. She holds an unidentified rocky specimen, possibly a carbonaceous chondrite, the analysis of which is central to her research.
Signed in bottom right corner ‘Garry Kennard ‘13’
Dr. Zita Carla Torrão Pinto Martins is an astrobiologist and former Royal Society University Research Fellow (2009-2017). Her work includes analysing meteorites for organic molecules and helping to prepare for missions to Mars by understanding soil from Earth deserts.
Garry Kennard is a painter and writer interested in the overlapping realms of science and art. For this series of portraits, he requested that his subjects bring a personal object or reflection to the studio that might say something about how they thought about their science.
Signed in bottom right corner ‘Garry Kennard ‘13’
Dr. Zita Carla Torrão Pinto Martins is an astrobiologist and former Royal Society University Research Fellow (2009-2017). Her work includes analysing meteorites for organic molecules and helping to prepare for missions to Mars by understanding soil from Earth deserts.
Garry Kennard is a painter and writer interested in the overlapping realms of science and art. For this series of portraits, he requested that his subjects bring a personal object or reflection to the studio that might say something about how they thought about their science.
Object history
1 in a series of 5 portraits commissioned by the Royal Society for inclusion in ‘Scientists’ (2013); an exhibition curated by Uta Frith FRS.
Related fellows
Uta Frith (German) , Developmental psychologist
Associated place