About
Science in Pictures is a community sourced project in collaboration with AstraZeneca as it celebrates science with a unique 26 square metre mosaic art installation, inspired by and composed of over 1,000 original images with contributions from local schools and events with AstraZeneca’s STEM partners.
The STEM Community art project (Science in Pictures) was unveiled at the Discovery Centre (DISC), the UK’s largest Laboratory. Gigapixels are huge photographic images. They can be viewed on-screen in an interactive format, or as very large format prints with an incredible amount of detail.
Artwork
AstraZeneca celebrated science with a permanent 26 square metre mosaic art installation by the People’s Picture, inspired by and composed of over 1,000 original images with contributions from local schools and events with STEM partners. The STEM Community art project (Science in Pictures) was unveiled at the Discovery Centre (DISC), the UK’s largest laboratory.
Original Images
Art Sessions
Square Metres
Gigapixels
Gallery
The Science in Pictures Mosaic is composed of over 1,000 original images with contributions from local schools and events with STEM partners. These were carefully scanned, digitised and post processed by the People’s Picture studio and then collaged into one giant artwork.
Explore
The mosaic is also discoverable online as a staggering interactive 1654-megapixel artwork. Some of the STEM art is highlighted and clickable, meaning you can read, learn and delve into the stories behind STEM and fact-finding fun for all ages.
Gigapixels are huge photographic images. They can be viewed on-screen in an interactive format, or as very large format prints with an incredible amount of detail. A gigapixel image contains one billion pixels, which is 1,000 times the size of a one-megapixel image, or equivalent to 1,000 megapixels.
“This has been a rewarding and positive collaboration that has flourished over a long period of interdisciplinary conversations and subsequent development. It has been a privilege to work alongside a team of scientists with such dedication to the participants and open minds to the artistic outcome, where experimentation is the nature of creativity itself, and where it is a necessity to trust in the process.
We worked for many months and days collecting and processing all the inspirational imagery to make an artwork where the whole is greater than the sum of its parts. Congratulations to every pupil and participant who has an image and story embedded in this artwork, a true work of joint authorship and innovation.”
Helen Marshall | Artist and Founder of the People’s Picture
As the largest company in the UK and a vital part of the country’s life sciences ecosystem, AstraZeneca is committed to investing in the culture, community and economy in Cambridge to support science today and foster the scientists of the future.”
Mene Pangalos | Executive Vice President, BioPharmaceuticals R&D, AstraZeneca
With special thanks to:
Steeple Bumpstead Primary School
St Faith’s
Ravenscourt Park Preparatory School
RA Butler Academy
Queen Emma Primary School
Queen Edith Primary School
Over Primary School
Orchard Park Community Primary School
Morley Memorial Primary School
Isleham Church of England Primary School
Girton Glebe Primary School
The Galfrid School
Fawcett Primary School
Cambridge Science Centre
Cambridgeshire County Day
Cambridge United Foundation
Big Biology Day
DISC Family Fun Day