The face of Queen Elizabeth II has appeared widely in the media this week on the occasion of her Diamond Jubilee and has been reproduced on an extensive variety of objects ranging from teapots to thimbles.

The Cadogan Contemporary Gallery, a prestigious art gallery in Kensington, London, is displaying Pixel Queen 2012, the work of a young Maltese architect, artist and designer Jonathan Mizzi, who has recreated a series of sculpted busts of Her Majesty in a new medium he defines as “three-dimensional pointillism”.

Fascinated by the human eye’s ability to blend individual pixels into a fuller range of colour tones, Mr Mizzi explores the themes of optical illusion and perception found in pointillism by marrying computer-generated sculpture with state-of-the-art digital manufacturing processes and has pioneered a truly ground-breaking technique within figurative sculpture.

Mr Mizzi, 30, and a member of the Royal Institute of British Architects, works out of his Malta and London studios and has been responsible for the design and production of several award-winning interiors, notably the Snog Frozen Yoghurt Stores in London.

Prior to setting up Studio Mizzi, he worked as lead concept artist for Sir Norman Foster and as a project architect at cutting-edge practice Cinimod Studio in West London.

The five Pixel Queen sculptures in milk white, alien green and Union Jack blends have stirred a huge interest in this new form of sculpture.

• More information may be obtained online: www.cadogancontemporary.com, www.mizzi.co, or e-mail jonathan@mizzi.co