Ryan Preseley – Prosperity Edited by Madeleine King with contributors; TIna Baum, Daniel Browning, Suvendrini Perera and Ryan Presley

This book presents selected works from Presley’s acclaimed Blood Money series, which presents the heroes and warriors of Indigenous history as figureheads on Australian banknotes, alongside documentation of the recent Prosperity exhibition at the Institute of Modern Art in Brisbane. This hardcover book, edited by Madeleine King, features a chapter by Ryan Presley on the history of the Australian colony’s first currency, the holey dollar, alongside contributions by Tina Baum, Daniel Browning, and Suvendrini Perera that explore different manifestations of currency as a tool of the colonial project.

First edition, 2018, hard-cover, 128 pages, fully illustrated in colour, ISBN 978-0-6480181-1-7 (Old stock in mint condition)