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200,000 children have their faces projected on to front of Buckingham Palace

200,000 children have their faces projected on to front of Buckingham Palace

Thousands of self-portraits by children from across the UK have been

projected on to the frontage of Buckingham Palace to form a montage image of HM The Queen in a bid to break a Guinness World

Records record for Most artists working on the same art installation.

200,000 children have their faces projected on to front of Buckingham Palace

The Face Britain projections will run from

8.30 pm – 11.30 pm for three nights until Saturday 21st April. Face Britain is a unique project created by The Prince’s

Foundation for Children & the Arts and brought to life by PhotoBox to provide a platform to celebrate the nation’s

children and young people in the lead up to HM The Queen’s Diamond Jubilee, The London Olympic and Paralympic Games. The

Prince’s Foundation for Children & the Arts is an educational charity established by HRH The Prince of Wales to enable

disadvantaged young people to access and engage with professional arts.

Face Britain invited children aged 4-16 years

of age to produce their own self portraits enabling them to explore their creativity and to consider their own identity and

place in history as the 2012 generation. Portraits at all levels of skill, and in any medium were acceptable, including

drawing, textiles, 3D, painting, graphics, and photography. The response has been amazing with over 200,000 portraits being

uploaded on to the Face Britain online gallery, and 1,000 portraits per hour being uploaded over the final week (24th-31st

March).”Face Britain is about empowering children to explore their identity creatively; using the arts to communicate how

they see themselves and giving us all a unique snapshot of our country’s future generation,”said Jeremy Newton, Chief

Executive, The Prince’s Foundation for Children & the Arts.

As well as the projection on to Buckingham Palace the

montage portrait of HM The Queen will be simultaneously screened for 24 hours on BBC Big Screens in 18 public locations

across the UK. It will also be screened across JCDecaux’s network of digital advertising screens in train stations and

shopping centres across the UK. The children’s individual portraits will also be shown across 200 JCDecaux screens by the

end of 2012.

The projection has been created by artist Ross Ashton of The Projection Studio and is made possible by

the generous support of Creative Technology. Ross’ previous projection work has been seen during HM The Queen’s Golden

Jubilee, the Edinburgh Military Tattoo and the London 2008 New Year’s Eve celebrations.

The montage image will be

attempting to break the Guinness World Records title for Most artists working on the same art installation  – the

current record is 28,267 artists who contributed to an installation in Israel in 2009. Guinness World Records officials are

currently reviewing the evidence and will announce in the coming weeks whether a new world record has been set.

This

incredible one-off, record-breaking event can be witnessed outside Buckingham Palace, London SW1A 1AA from 19th-21st April,

8.30 pm-11.30 pm. In addition, parents and guardians are able to purchase a unique piece of personalised Face Britain

merchandise containing their child’s self portrait, through PhotoBox, with 20% of all sales being donated to support the

work of The Prince’s Foundation for Children & the Arts.

The children’s self portraits will be stored in

perpetuity for the nation by the British Library.

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