With textual consent, 2023

Hand screen print with water based pigment onto cotton calico

3 x diptych: 110 x 115 cm (variable), (a) 110 x 77.5 cm, (b) 110 x 77.5 cm

Printed by SpaceCraft

Commissioned by La Trobe Library and La Trobe Art Institute (2023) curated by Amelia Wallin

With textual consent is a series commissioned by La Trobe Library and La Trobe Art Institute. The artwork is in response to La Trobe’s Sandhurst Collection, whose permanent home lies opposite the wall on which Money's work is installed. The history of this collection has its roots in the evolution of tertiary education in the European settlement of Bendigo, formerly Sandhurst, always and forever Djaara, Djandak (Country) of the Dja Dja Wurrung people.

To create With textual consent, Money has selected three double-page spreads from books in the Sandhurst Collection that have been scanned at the new Bendigo Digitisation Lab. Through the application of pigments to erase words, she has transformed the existing 19th-century texts into poems. Money’s images have been screenprinted by hand onto calico, a layered printing technique that has preserved an image of the original document. Installing the suite of three works (each in two parts) directly on the wall, without framing or glazing, emphasises the tactility of pages in a book.


Text by curator Amelia Wallin. Read more here.