World-renowned artist and savant Stephen Wiltshire unveils a new detailed skyline drawing of Birmingham to mark World Autism Awareness Day.
The artist Stephen Wiltshire MBE was born in west London on 24 April 1974. He has featured in numerous documentaries and his work is displayed in the Stephen Wiltshire Gallery, Royal Opera Arcade, London SW1.
The quite remarkable talents of the London-born artist Stephen Wiltshire, who was awarded an MBE for his "services to art" two years ago, are to be celebrated this week in a television documentary about extraordinary people.
Wiltshire was awarded an MBE for his services to art in 2006 and has his own gallery on Pall Mall, central London. His originals sell for thousands of pounds.
The British artist Stephen Wiltshire, nicknamed "the human camera", is currently painting the entire city of Madrid from memory.
Stephen Wiltshire, who was diagnosed with autism at the age of three, memorised the appearance and position of hundreds of London's buildings in exact scale during a helicopter ride along the Thames.
The cities Wiltshire draws become at once whimsical, infinite, and relatable. One drawing in particular (four square miles of London) looks like a metropolis created by Lilliputian society, delicate and diminutive.
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