Artist painstakingly draws ten thousand tiny human figures on a screen

Photograph by Roger Bamber 23 September 2005 A blurred shadow of Artist Mark Anstee can be seen as he draws some of 10 000 two inch high 1 32 scale human figures called Early Redemption he is creating on a vast translucent membrane suspended in the chancel of a former church The church now converted into the Fabrica Gallery in Brighton displays the 7 metre high screen covered with little figures drawn over 25 days by the artist suspended in a harness on the other side of the screen from the viewer