Bull/Bear Market
BANK OF SCOTLAND COMMISSION
Embossed Shredded BOS Bank-notes with screen-printed metallic and iridescent acrylic.
Commissioned by Alice Strang (the Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art) and Helen Redmond-Cooper (Bank of Scotland) 2007.
On permanent display at Llyods Bank Headquarters, London and Bank of Scotland Headquarters, The Mound, Edinburgh.
The ‘Bull/Bear Market’ project investigated the financial world in 2007/8 and incorporated actual shredded money from obsolete BOS bank-notes, reflecting the fiscal worlds’ dynamic relationships with ‘Bull’ and ‘Bear’ markets.
The two large prints (150 cm x 100 cm) were printed in collaboration with Dundee Printmakers and the University of Dundee’s Visual Research Centre and were completed in July 2008, in the midst of the 2008 Banking and Credit crisis.
Additional Article by Susan Mansfield in the Scotsman
LINKS:http://www.punctum-qc.com/expositions/engramme/david-faithfull.html
https://davidfaithfull.bigcartel.com
The ‘Bull/Bear Market’ project investigated the financial world in 2007/8 and incorporated actual shredded money from obsolete BOS bank-notes, reflecting the fiscal worlds’ dynamic relationships with ‘Bull’ and ‘Bear’ markets.
The two large prints (150 cm x 100 cm) were printed in collaboration with Dundee Printmakers and the University of Dundee’s Visual Research Centre and were completed in July 2008, in the midst of the 2008 Banking and Credit crisis.
An additional, smaller version integrating these shredded banknotes in the exact shape of a twenty pound note, were available from the BOS's Museum shop on the Mound in Edinburgh, in the form of an accessible currency ‘multiple’ edition.
Copies of these smaller multiples and the larger prints are available form the artist (POA).
The process of integrating the shredded money develops earlier experimental ‘money’ pieces, utilising a variety of contemporary and traditional printmaking techniques. These include incorporating, adhering and pressing the raw bank-note compound into new forms and structures utilising screen-printing, etching and lithography processes.
The prints were exhibited at Engramme at Quebec at Faithfull's solo show there (2012), at Impact 6 in Bristol and the SSA annual exhibition in Dundee (2009) and at Edinburgh Printmaker's Edinburgh Arts Festival Exhibition 'Cheer Up it's not the End of the World' (2012), featured and illustrated in Duncan Macmillan's Scotsman review, also including work by Albrecht Durer and the Chapman Brothers.
Additional Article by Susan Mansfield in the Scotsman
LINKS:http://www.punctum-qc.com/expositions/engramme/david-faithfull.html
https://davidfaithfull.bigcartel.com
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