Defaced! - Exhibition catalogue

Defaced: Money, Conflict, Protest, edited by Richard Kelleher, 2022

This catalogue accompanies the major new exhibition at The Fitzwilliam Museum, October 2022 - January 2023. The exhibition is the first of its kind to examine the interplay between money, power and dissent over the last 250 years – with a key strand of the show exploring the role of the individual in protesting for rights and representation.

From the radicals of the nineteenth and early twentieth century, like Thomas Spence and the Suffragettes, to current artists and activists, such as Aida Wilde and Hilary Powell, the works on display show how money has been used to promote social and economic equality or satirise those in power.

A range of striking objects in the exhibition reveal the multiple roles money played during conflict, whether it be in occupation or resistance, as tokens of memory and remembrance, created during siege or emergency, made for or by prisoners of war, or made in support of sectarian or political ideologies.

This catalogue contains 12 essays by researchers and experts in the field of numismatics and history, and by practising artists whose work is featured in the exhibition.

Product details:

• Softback catalogue
• 28 x 24 cm, 168 pages
• Fully illustrated in colour throughout
• ISBN: 9781913645335