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Helen Marshall
Helen Marshall, born 1971, is a British visual artist working with photography and new media. She is best known for her socially engaged and participatory approach to creating public art works. Her work is in held in public and private collections.
Life and career
Marshall was born in Oxfordshire, England. She studied at the University of Wales Institute (1997) and has a Masters in Photography from the University of Westminster (2009-10).
Public Art Work
In 2016, she set up an artist-led photography and design studio, The People’s Picture, which uses visual storytelling to create digital photo mosaics made up of thousands of user-submitted, historic and archival photographs. Many of these works commemorate and celebrate historic events and notable individuals. In 2019, to mark the 50th anniversary of Apollo 11 and NASA's first moon landing, The People’s Moon, projected an interactive digital photo mosaic of a giant moon onto the screens in London’s Piccadilly Circus[1] at the exact time a human first stepped onto the moon[2].
References
1) Duffy, Nick (21 July 2019). i news. Apollo 11: How people around the world celebrated 50th anniversary of Moon landing. Retrieved 2019-10-19.
- ^ "MISSION TO PUT LONDONERS ON THE MOON THIS JULY". London TV. 2019-06-28. Retrieved 2019-10-25.
- ^ "Apollo 11: How people celebrated moon landing anniversary". inews.co.uk. Retrieved 2019-10-25.