Art and Currency
Publication
Advances in technology means we are living in an increasingly
digital world. The Bank of England has even been working on
a ‘Digital Pound’ as they feel like it is something that will be
necessary in the future. However, as our view of money shifts
to become more digital we often forget about all beauty and
physicality of cash. For my practical project I am celebrating
money/currency as a form of art. I think there are a lot of
interesting stories worth telling when it comes to the design of currency, and the way we use currency in art and design.
I’ve taken some of these stories and placed them into a
publication to bring them together. The publication also contains
some of my own work where I have used a Scanning Electron
Microscope to take images of different forms of currency. This includes coins, banknotes and a bank card.
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