CLICK HERE TO SEE THE FACE.
CLICK HERE TO SEE THE EXHIBITION.
The Face of Peterborough is a unique and exciting artist in residence project hosted by Peterborough Museum and Art Gallery in conjunction with Peterborough City Council and supported by the National Lottery through Arts Council England.
Between 6th February and 25th April 2010 Christopher Wiles will be Artist in Residence at the Peterborough Museum and Art Gallery as part of their Peterborough People exhibition. During his residency he will be creating a unique, hand-drawn portrait called the Face of Peterborough. The Face of Peterborough will be created by taking thousands of photographs of the residents of the city which will be merged together using a piece of software called Psychomorph, kindly supplied by the Face Research Laboratory - part of the psychology department at the University of Aberdeen. The resulting image, an 'average' of all the portraits included, will be used to create the Face of Peterborough, a huge, painstakingly detailed, photorealist pen and ink portrait drawing in a studio within the gallery. Alongside the residency Christopher Wiles will run a series of arts workshops for local school groups.
Thank you to all the residents of Peterborough who have had their photographs taken for the project, we have managed to gather over 1400 photographs from all the events throughout December and January. Work on merging the faces is going really well and Wiles is really looking forward to the second stage of the project where he will set up his studio in the Gallery to make the Face of Peterborough.
During the residency you can visit the artist at work in the Peterborough Museum and Art Gallery and also visit this page to see the progress of the Face of Peterborough as it is created.
CLICK HERE TO SEE THE EXHIBITION.
The Face of Peterborough is a unique and exciting artist in residence project hosted by Peterborough Museum and Art Gallery in conjunction with Peterborough City Council and supported by the National Lottery through Arts Council England.
Between 6th February and 25th April 2010 Christopher Wiles will be Artist in Residence at the Peterborough Museum and Art Gallery as part of their Peterborough People exhibition. During his residency he will be creating a unique, hand-drawn portrait called the Face of Peterborough. The Face of Peterborough will be created by taking thousands of photographs of the residents of the city which will be merged together using a piece of software called Psychomorph, kindly supplied by the Face Research Laboratory - part of the psychology department at the University of Aberdeen. The resulting image, an 'average' of all the portraits included, will be used to create the Face of Peterborough, a huge, painstakingly detailed, photorealist pen and ink portrait drawing in a studio within the gallery. Alongside the residency Christopher Wiles will run a series of arts workshops for local school groups.
Thank you to all the residents of Peterborough who have had their photographs taken for the project, we have managed to gather over 1400 photographs from all the events throughout December and January. Work on merging the faces is going really well and Wiles is really looking forward to the second stage of the project where he will set up his studio in the Gallery to make the Face of Peterborough.
During the residency you can visit the artist at work in the Peterborough Museum and Art Gallery and also visit this page to see the progress of the Face of Peterborough as it is created.
