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Defaced!

From the radicals of the 19th and early 20th century, like Thomas Spence and the Suffragettes, to current artists and activists, such as Aida Wilde and Hilary Powell, the works on display in the Defaced! Money, Conflict, Protest exhibition show how money has been used to promote social and economic equality or satirise those in power.

Curator and regular contributor Richard Kelleher said: ‘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

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