THE ART OF THE BRICK

Former lawyer Nathan Sawaya’s global touring exhibition of these Lego sculptures has arrived in London and it’s a great display of painstaking craft, perhaps bordering on the obsessive. From a recreation of the Mona Lisa to the Sistine Chapel ceiling it’s an homage to the mighty little brick and it’s the power of Lego phenomenon that leaves the most lasting impression. Some stats for you: Since the 1950s, 560 billion Lego bricks have been manufactured and the annual production of 306 million tiny rubber tyres is reported to make Lego the single biggest user of tyre rubber in the world.

And now it’s been turned into a bonafide art form…Not bad for a brick.