John Hansard Gallery and Chawton House Library

Show Me The Money: The Image of Finance 1700 to the Present poses the question, what does money really stand for, and how can ‘the market’ and the world of high finance be made visible? The exhibition charts how the financial world has been imagined in art, illustration, photography and other visual media over the last three centuries in Britain and the United States, and asks how artists have tussled with the intangible nature of money, from the South Sea Bubble of the eighteenth century to the global financial crisis of 2008.

Show Me the Money features works ranging from satirical eighteenth-century prints by William Hogarth, to newly commissioned pieces by a range of contemporary artists in an array of media: paintings, prints, photographs and videos. Here in Hampshire the exhibition will be shown simultaneously across the John Hansard Gallery and Chawton House Library, the latter once owned by Jane Austen's brother, himself implicated in a financial scandal of the 1810s.

Presented as part of a gallery and museum partnership, the exhibition is currently on show at Northern Gallery for Contemporary Art until 30 August. After its presentation here in Hampshire in Autumn 2014, Show Me the Money will be on extended display at The People’s History Museum, Manchester in July 2015.

For more information please visit www.hansardgallery.org.uk