Recently on display at IMPACT 6 in Bristol and the annual SSA exhibition in Dundee, the ‘Bull/Bear Market’ project, originally commissioned by the Bank of Scotland in 2007, investigates the current financial world and incorporates actual shredded money from obsolete BOS bank-notes. The subject matter reflects the fiscal worlds’ relationships with ‘Bull’ and ‘Bear’ motives and markets, and is earmarked for eventual display at the Bank’s head offices in Edinburgh and London.
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 current Banking and Credit crisis.
The process of integrating the shredded money develops earlier experimental ‘money’ pieces, exploring biblical themes of money utilizing 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.
An additional, smaller version integrating these shredded banknotes, is available in the bank’s Museum shop on the Mound in Edinburgh, in the form of an accessible currency ‘multiple’.
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