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Honey, they shrunk the art … top artists create works for tiny gallery

Creative giants from Hirst to Hambling have produced masterpieces a few centimetres across for a scaled-down show

Life has been reduced in scale for most people over the past 12 months, but now an extraordinary line-up of British artists, including Damien Hirst, Tacita Dean, Edmund de Waal, Grayson Perry, John Akomfrah and Rachel Whiteread, have taken it a step further by miniaturising their art.

Taking up an invitation from Pallant House Gallery in West Sussex, more than 30 leading British artists have made tiny works for a doll’s house-size exhibition, Masterpieces in Miniature, that will provide a microcosm of contemporary visual arts. Mini sculptures, oil paintings, ceramics and photographs from veteran artists such as Michael Craig-Martin and Maggi Hambling to the 2017 Turner prize winner Lubaina Himid – the first black woman to win the prize – are to go on display in a specially designed model gallery from 26 June, alongside key names established in the Young British Artist era, such as Gary Hume, Michael Landy, Gillian Wearing and Julian Opie. The artworks range from the size of a pound coin up to 20cm, but no bigger.

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