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Artist Tomas Georgeson has hidden a blank cheque for £8,000 in Milton Keynes Gallery in an attempt to boost interest and visitor numbers.
Buckinghamshire artist Tomas Georgeson has left a blank cheque for £8,000 in Milton Keynes Gallery in the hope it will raise local interest in the town’s fledgling art scene. Georgeson told the Telegraph that he concealed the cheque in the gallery on Tuesday morning, and has placed an advert in a local paper to inform local residents. The advert, which will be printed in The Milton Keynes Citizen on Wednesday, says: “A blank cheque for £8,000 has been hidden somewhere in the public spaces of Milton Keynes Gallery. It will be collected on 1 March 2013 if unclaimed.” Georgeson says that he decided to hide the cheque as a statement of support for the gallery, and that he wanted to “get people through the door and change the mood of the place.”.....Read more here
Buckinghamshire artist Tomas Georgeson has left a blank cheque for £8,000 in Milton Keynes Gallery in the hope it will raise local interest in the town’s fledgling art scene. Georgeson told the Telegraph that he concealed the cheque in the gallery on Tuesday morning, and has placed an advert in a local paper to inform local residents. The advert, which will be printed in The Milton Keynes Citizen on Wednesday, says: “A blank cheque for £8,000 has been hidden somewhere in the public spaces of Milton Keynes Gallery. It will be collected on 1 March 2013 if unclaimed.” Georgeson says that he decided to hide the cheque as a statement of support for the gallery, and that he wanted to “get people through the door and change the mood of the place.”.....Read more here