INSTALLATION artists from across Europe have turned the streets of Middlesbrough into gallery.

Artwork has been installed throughout the town including a car wrapped in gold lam on the building site that will eventually become the Middlesbrough Institute of Modern Art (MIMA).

Called Wrappinghood, it is the latest exhibition in the pre-opening programme for the gallery. The displays are designed to challenge the traditional concepts of what jewellery is. German Jeweller Suska Mackert has paved the streets with gold leaf slogans while Spanish designer Marti Guixe has created a sticky tape to be wrapped around public locations to create a trail.

Ines Tartler's gold-wrapped car is the biggest installation. She has previously used the theme in Berlin as part of an initiative to draw attention to the city's art galleries.

James Beighton, MIMA crafts curato, said: "This is one of many exhibitions that we have organised in the build up to the opening MIMA and we hope it will bring it to the attention of the people in the area."

The £19.2m gallery and public square is hoped to open next year.