What does a $10m golden sculpture look like?

Copy link Copied Copy link Copied Subscribe to gift this article Gift 5 articles to anyone you choose each month when you subscribe. Already a subscriber? Login 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. Loading.

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