What does a $10m golden sculpture look like?
Abundance, by artist Lindy Lee, will be unveiled along with an enormous companion piece in recycled metal at the National Gallery of Australia in October.
Few people can say that they owe their life to gold but, for Byron Bay-based artist Lindy Lee, it’s a basic truth. Her mother, with Lee’s two older brothers in tow, cycled across Communist China to Hong Kong with a false-bottomed suitcase lined with gold, a lifeline for the young family to begin a new life.
Gold also saved Lee’s grandmother – after she was imprisoned and tortured by the ruling communists. Lee’s mum used the gold she had amassed as a black-market trader to bribe the guards and secure her mother-in-law’s release.
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