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Its so rare for anything of major significance to crop up in my back yard that I couldn’t resist profiling this story about turning the contents of the Usher Art Gallery into a series of holograms. Perhaps magic can happen even in the quietest of rural Cities!

The article tells us: An Austrian artist who uses cutting-edge technology to create video and animated artworks by “restructuring” traditional media has been awarded a prestigious £60,000 commission to turn classical and archaeological objects into digital and hologram forms using 3D scanners. Oliver Laric, 31, won first prize in the Contemporary Art Society’s annual award for his “Versions” proposal.

The commission-centric award which creates partnerships between emerging artists and regional galleries, will enable the Berlin-based artist to undertake his 3D scanning project for display at The Collection and Usher Gallery, Lincoln as part of its permanent collection. Laric will scan all of the works in The Collection and Usher Gallery from classical sculpture to archaeological finds “with the aim of eliminating historical and material hierarchies and to reduce all works to objects and forms”.