Nicholas Manion

www.nickolya.net

Nicholas Manion is a student at the Queensland College of Art, Brisbane. The work above is part of his collection "Works In Paper", which demonstrates aims "...to transform a commonplace material and create something extroadinary...".

The image shows sillohettes of cities made out of differnt currency notes.
On his website he comments... "Money circles the globe forming links between cities on opposite sides of the world. I must give them a voice and share the stories they tell..."
This line of copy is great! It has a powerful edge to it, maybe if there was a bigger link with this copy to the artwork the purpose of the work would be better defined??

Personally I wouldn't go as far as saying Manion has created something "extroadinary", but nevertheless he has discovered an interesting link between different currency and how it travels from country to country. Using a creative hand to display city outlines on different notes; I feel however something more could've been done to give it that finishing touch, what that is though i'm not sure.