Micro sculptures willard wigan biography

British sculptor (born 1957)

Willard Wigan, MBE (born June 1957) is a Britishsculptor from Ashmore Park Estate, Wednesfield, England, the son of Jamaican immigrants, who makes micro miniature sculptures.

His sculptures are typically placed in the eye of a needle or on the head of a pin. A single sculpture can be as small as 0.005 mm (0.0002 in).^[1]

Life and work

As a child with dyslexia and ASD,^[2] neither of which were diagnosed until adulthood,^[3] Willard Wigan was ridiculed in class by his primary school teachers for not learning to read.^[4][5] Wigan attributes his early drive in sculpting, which began at the age of five, to his need to escape from the derision of teachers and classmates.^[4]