London, UK-based The Projection Studio - headed by visual artist Ross Ashton - designed and created a video artwork featuring 32 animated mosaic portraits of HM The Queen which was projected onto Buckingham Palace last week.
The 'Face Britain' project - the first time that video projections have been used on the front of the Palace - was instigated by The Prince's Foundation for Children & the Arts and enabled more than 200,000 children to make their faces famous on the front of one of London's most iconic landmarks.
Children aged 4-16 were invited by Face Britain to produce their own self-portraits encompassing all levels of skill and in any medium, including drawing, photography, textiles, painting and graphics.
The video montage of the 32 portraits is attempting to break the Guinness World Records title for the Largest Collaborative Artwork, ie. the most artists working on the same art installation. The previous record stands at 28,267 artists.
The whole project was brought to life by PhotoBox and the video run via a Watchout control system.
The overall image was 110m wide x 25m tall. Filling the spaces around the actual Queen's head portraits were a series of animated backgrounds and other picture frames.
