Streatham Artist’s Penny Portrait
The Daily Mail published a story this morning about, Mary Nugent, an artist from Streatham, currently studying for a degree at The University of Derby. She has created a self portrait using 5,500 pennies (fifty five pounds worth). Many of them had to be left outside for months to darken in order to get the variety of shades needed to complete the picture. The work explores the cost and value of education and has been very warmly received by her peers. You can read the full story in the mail online here.
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