Smallest handmade sculpture

The smallest handmade sculpture is 0.01104 x 0.01233 mm and was achieved by David A Lindon (UK) as confirmed in Bournemouth, Dorset, UK, on 19 August 2025.

The artwork is a tiny yellow smiley face that was placed on to a single microdot forming the profile head of the late Queen Elizabeth II on a British postage stamp. It was assessed under a digital microscope with a 2500x lens at Bournemouth University.

Lindon has been a micro sculptor since 2018 and is now one of the world's best-known artists in this field. He has created hundreds of tiny artworks including sculptures of animals, buildings, vehicles and characters, as well as recreations of famous paintings. In order to make his tiny creations, Lindon – who trained in the military as a precision instrument engineer – has developed a carefully calibrated process, including only working mainly at night (with no vibrations outside from passing traffic), bespoke tiny tools and even regulating his breathing and heartbeat to keep his hand as steady as possible when working on his sculptures under a powerful microscope.

This surpasses Lindon's own record by more than 50%: a recreation of a red LEGO brick that measured 0.02517 mm x 0.02184 mm, about the same size as a white blood cell, as confirmed on 1 August 2024.