Friday Lunchtime Lecture: From private art collections to open culture

The digitisation of public collections has made great works of art available globally, at the click of a mouse. In this talk we’ll look at tax exempt art, Britain’s most obscure public art collection and ask what’s the future for open culture. About the speaker Jo Pugh is a research engineer and a member of the Centre for Digital Heritage at the University of York. He is the founder of Open Inheritance Art, a project to collect images of tax exempt art from around the UK.