Treasured City

Luke Jerram

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From : 

8th January

 

In September 2016 Luke visited North Lincolnshire Museum and selected 5 small artefacts that he and the curator felt represented the region. The objects span a period from ancient through to modern times. Each object was then 3D scanned, 3D printed in wax and then cast in 18ct gold. The gold replicas, each worth at least £2500 were then hidden across Scunthorpe and the region for the public to find and keep.

 

Clues to the whereabouts of the 5 gold artworks were woven into the visual content of 5 paintings for exhibition in 20-21 Visual Arts Centre from 18th February –  29th April 2017. Luke worked with a code breaker from GCHQ to set the visual clues within each painting.

 

The paintings in the exhibition ranged in difficulty. One painting was “so easy to solve even a child may be able to work out the location of the golden treasure”. Whilst other codes were far harder to crack.

 

 Website : www.lukejerram.com