World Bank & Money Maps

2013

World Bank

A map of the world made with used international paper currency, cut and collaged to form a large-scale detailed artwork. This meticulously hand-crafted world map highlights the currencies that dislay the activities, industries, plant and wildlife of nations and continents. Cutting, layering and collaging the recycled paper currency created a tactile and material quality that gives the piece a 3D feel. It is a historic document of the money used by nations at that point in time (1960's-2014). All of the Money Works are made from real currency.

Old Money

A map of the UK & Ireland crafted from cut and collaged old sterling money notes to form a layered map of the UK & Ireland.

Money Maps

Various maps that use money itself as a medium for political commentary and satire. Here international paper currency is embroidered to add detail and content using the colours of a related flag or motif and to define states, counties and countinents. Often commenting on a geo-political or local issue of the moment, these works are mementos to places in time. America: an Imperial State was made after reading that a significant proportion of America’s debt is to China.

These works contain a desiere to subvert and ask questions about our relationships with money. They contain a strong visual craft aesthetic and material sensibility.

Exhibitions

Artist in Residence Pinsent Masons, London 2020-22

Love Me Tender Bellevue Arts Museum Seattle, Washington, USA 2013

Creative Compass Royal Geographic Society & INIVA London 2010

TEFAF Art Fair with Patrick Heide Contemporary Art 2020

Publications:

Creative Compass Royal Geographic Society & INIVA 2010

Susan Stockwell: Economy, Dresses and Maps - Art Cartography

Mappamundi_Art_Cartographie Guillaume Monsaingeon, see p. 26/27

The British Artist Tackling the Long, Dark Shadow of Colonialism by Paul Carey-Kent Elephant Magazine 2019

Collection:

Blackrock Investments art collection USA & Edinburgh (courtesy of TAG Fine Arts)