My story
Anurita Chandola FRAS is a spacewear and textiles artist who designs sustainable clothing for life on Mars. A graduate of the Royal College of Art, her work explores how humans might live, dress, and feel at home beyond Earth. She combines traditional textile knowledge with future thinking, creating garments that use repurposed materials, zero waste design, and imaginative storytelling to reimagine the wardrobe of future space travellers.
Anurita’s approach to sustainability is rooted in her Himalayan heritage. Growing up with traditions of careful making and resourcefulness, she learned that every material has value and every object can have many lives. These early lessons shape her vision for spacewear today, where resources on Mars will be precious and creativity will be essential.
Her work has been exhibited internationally, including the Building a Martian House project in Bristol, where she led the design of textiles and clothing for a Martian habitat. She has also presented her work at the Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts in Washington DC during the Earth to Space Festival, where she created a dress from the exact parachute fabric used to land the Perseverance Rover on Mars. Her work has also been exhibited at the Royal West of England Academy as part of the Soft Power exhibition, Jodrell Bank Observatory, and the HDFC Bank Headquarters, among many others.
Alongside her artistic practice, Anurita works widely with young people and communities. She has led sustainable, space inspired workshops for children and families at institutions including the Kennedy Center, the Science Museum, and Jodrell Bank Observatory. She has also delivered a TEDx talk, and her work has been featured by the BBC as well as in international magazines and news publications.
She is currently an artist in residence at the University of Reading and the recipient of the CCAC Young Designer Award.
Through her work, Anurita invites us to imagine a future where the wisdom of heritage, the care of sustainable making, and the wonder of space exploration come together to shape how humanity might live, both on Earth and on Mars.