Who do you think is the most legendary Mancunian? Here’s YOUR chance to vote!

An iconic artwork of one Manchester’s most famous faces is to be created from hundreds of pictures of everyday Mancunians by artist Nathan Wyburn.

Images, taken last year at a unique social experiment that captured a Day in the Life of the city, will form the collage of one legendary local.

Nathan is asking the public to vote for who he should commemorate in the piece, from a short list of 12 memorable Mancs.

The Day In The Life project in April 2017 was led by award-winning photographer Mark Waugh and saw an army of street photographers capture 24 hours in the city with their cameras.

More than 1,500 images were collected, ranging from the city’s rough sleepers to party-goers, buskers and footy fans, bikers and wildlife.

Once the votes are cast, Nathan, 28, who first came to prominence after reaching the semi finals of Britain’s Got Talent in 2011 (see video below), will set about creating one of his famous collage artworks.

Artist Nathan Wyburn is asking the public to vote for who he should commemorate in the piece, from a shortlist of 12 memorable Mancs and Salfordians.

• LS Lowry, the artist who painted very distinctive matchstick men, women and dogs- see his work at the Lowry Theatre in Salford Quays.
• Alan Turing – computer scientist and mathematician, the creator of modern computing
• Emmeline Pankhurst – leader of the British suffragette movement who helped women win the right to vote
• Anthony Burgess – wrote music, screenplays and novels, including dystopian satire A Clockwork Orange, made into a film by Stanley Kubrick.
• Caroline Aherne – comedienne and creator of Mrs Merton and The Royale Family (with Half the World Away by Oasis as the theme tune).
• Victoria Wood – comedienne and creator of Dinnerladies and Acorn Antiques.
• Ian Curtis – lead singer of Joy Division – see video for Love will Tear Us Apart Again below.
• Pat Phoenix – actress who played Elsie Tanner on Coronation Street.
• Les Dawson – comedian – interview with Michael Parkinson below.
• James Joule –  English physicist, who studied the nature of heat, and discovered its relationship to mechanical work (energy)
• John Dalton – best known for his work on atomic theory.
• John Rylands – Manchester’s first multi-millionaire who helped fund the Manchester Ship Canal, public buildings, orphanages and charities.

Nathan, who is based in Wales, has recently created collage portraits of Prince Charles and Justin Bieber, as well as attention-grabbing artworks of Stephen Fry out of coffee, Adele out of ketchup, Rowan Atkinson from beans, Bob Marley from reggae sauce and Ed Miliband from toast.

He said: “I love the idea of finding someone synonymous with Manchester in the eyes of the public and then creating a piece of artwork using so many diverse images of life. It’s perfect.

“A Day In The Life is a brilliant concept that captures everyday life and people and I’ve greatly enjoyed looking at all the images that were created. They will last forever in their own right and also as part of my collage.”

To see the images from A Day In The Life and to VOTE for who you think should be honoured in this artwork visit cartridge save.co.uk