Creative Accounting
Creative Accounting
Andrew Hurle, _Reconstructions (after CW Dickinson)_, 2011 (detail), pigment ink jet print, 35 × 40 cm. Courtesy the artist and Darren Knight Gallery, Sydney.
Creative Accounting
Kenzee Patterson, _1USD_, 2009, a stack of one hundred US pennies protruding from the wall at a 90º angle. Courtesy the artist and Darren Knight Gallery, Sydney. Photo: silversalt.
Creative Accounting
Melanie Gilligan, _Self-Capital_, 2009, HD video, 25’ 3 channel video. Courtesy the artist and Franco Soffiantino Contemporary Art Productions, Italy.
Creative Accounting
Installation view Hawkesbury Regional Gallery, 2016. Photography by David Lawrey. Image courtesy The Curators’ Department.
Creative Accounting
Installation view Hawkesbury Regional Gallery, 2016. Photography by David Lawrey. Image courtesy The Curators’ Department.
Creative Accounting
Installation view Hawkesbury Regional Gallery, 2016. Photography by David Lawrey. Image courtesy The Curators’ Department.
ABOUT
Drawing from old currencies, banking archives and contemporary art, Creative Accounting scratches below the surface of our economic system to reveal money’s enigmatic side. Money is many things at once: an abstract rendering of value; an agent of propaganda; a decorative device. It plays a central role in all of our lives yet is often overlooked as an object of contemplation. At a time when money is becoming increasingly abstract Creative Accounting speculates on its wider value.
Archival objects and material history loans from local historical collections and lenders such as the Museum of Applied Arts and Sciences and Westpac Group Archives will complement recent and newly commissioned work by a selection of Australian and international artists such as Fiona Hall, Andrew Hurle, Kenzee Patterson, Melanie Gilligan, Ryan Presley and David Shapiro.
Creative Accounting promises to be an accessible and thought-provoking exhibition which elicits curiosity and re-appraisal of an intrinsic component of contemporary living, through the combination of art and artefact. Creative Accounting scratches below the surface of the economic system to reveal money’s enigmatic side.
ITINERARY
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27 May – 10 July 2016 |
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27 July – 5 September 2016 |
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17 September – 23 October 2016 |
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12 November 2016 – 26 February 2017 |
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4 March – 28 May 2017 |
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7 July – 8 October 2017 |
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20 October – 2 December 2017 |
RESOURCES
An exhibition curated by Holly Williams, in conjunction with Hawkesbury Regional Gallery and toured by Museums & Galleries of NSW.
This project is supported by Create NSW’s Curatorial Support Initiative grant, a devolved funding program administered by Museums & Galleries of NSW on behalf of the NSW Government. This project has been assisted by the Australian Government through the Australia Council, its arts funding and advisory body.
