
More Than Money
Trent Crawford
27 Mar–7 May 2017
More than Money examines contemporary portraiture, documenting the transcendence of the medium into structural and strategic advertising campiness designed to grow capital.
Crawford’s work specifically addresses the NAB’s 2016 campaign “More Than Money” which uses archival video and photographs to follow the growth of a child mediated through the “digitized” documentation of life experiences. Documenting a large public billboard, More than Money bares the structural supports used in the creation and display of ad content, illuminating the way in which these structures manipulate their figure.


This program takes place on the land of the Wurundjeri people of the Kulin Nation. We recognise that sovereignty was never ceded - this land is stolen land. We pay respects to Wurundjeri Elders, past, present and emerging, to the Elders from other communities and to any other Aboriginal or Torres Strait Islanders who might encounter or participate in the program.
Trent Crawford is an artist living and working in Melbourne. Currently studying a BFA (Honours) at the Victorian Collage of the Arts, Crawford is interested in dissecting images and technology to explore them in a passive state; entering the in-between moments in time where the subject or material exists in a state of lapse, often with their function usurped or absent. By disassembling, restructuring and repurposing new media Crawford calls to question how the framing devices of screens and filters are active in the construction, fragmentation and degeneration of the image.
Kiron Robinson is a Melbourne based artist. Utilising a range of material strategies including neon, video, photography and installation, his work investigates the idea of doubt, faith and failure as constructive devices.
Since 2003 Robinson has exhibited his work widely both nationally and internationally. Two recent solo exhibitions include, We told ourselves we needed separate beds to sleep, Centre for Contemporary Photography, Melbourne; and Hello. You’ve made it, Sarah Scout Presents, Melbourne. Robinson has also partaken in a number of residencies including the inbound residency program through Apexart, New York, and from 2005 – 2007 Robinson was a Gertrude Contemporary studio resident.
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