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The E-Sylum: Volume 25, Number 41, October 9, 2022, Article 13

MORE ON DEFACED! MONEY, CONFLICT, PROTEST

There are more great images of the Defaced! exhibit in this article from the Largs & Millport Weekly News. -Editor

  hanging the Defaced! exhibit

An exhibition of defaced money mutilated as cries of anger, injustice or despair is to go on display, including a banknote featuring the Duke and Duchess of Sussex.

Cambridge's Fitzwilliam Museum will host the exhibition called Defaced! Money, Conflict, Protest from Tuesday.

It has been billed by the museum as the first major exhibition to present a world history of protest through currencies that have been mutilated as cries of anger, injustice or despair from the last 250 years.

Harry and Meghan appear in a 2019 work by Boo Whorlow called Harry of England/Ten Megs, a reworking of Banksy's Di-Faced Tenner which featured Diana, Princess of Wales.

In the work, the duke replaces the Queen and Meghan appears on the reverse with the message Trust No Press.

Artist Sean Kushner created a satire featuring Donald Trump on a colourful one dollar banknote saying Maybe bae will buy me a wall, with a smaller illustration of Russian President Vladimir Putin next to him, hinting at the alleged links between the two.

The Fitzwilliam Museum said: Money is the perfect medium to highlight issues of wealth distribution, including the chasm between those at the top and the bottom, and the effects on those living in poverty.

  Imagined Value by JSG Boggs
Imagined Value by JSG Boggs

It has been used by artists to draw attention to the links between government policy and the financial and banking systems.

Against the backdrop of our current cost-of-living crisis, times of inflation, spiralling costs and debt, the exhibition's themes in which currency has been, and continues to be, created and defaced in protest remain urgently relevant.

– The exhibition will run from October 11 to January 8 and admission will be free.

To read the complete article, see:
Exhibition of defaced money to include Harry and Meghan banknotes (https://www.largsandmillportnews.com/news/national/23030629.exhibition-defaced-money-include-harry-meghan-banknotes/)

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