Creative Accounting

Overview

Ben Affleck plays an accountant in his latest film, and now UQ Art Museum is hosting an exhibition all about the figures-based field. Yep, it's a good time to be in the business of crunching numbers. The latter isn't quite what you might think, though. In a nutshell, you'll see more than just calculators.

Adding machines of all shapes and sizes are part of Creative Accounting, which is good news if you're into retro technology; however so is everything from alternative currencies and banking archives to pop culture and contemporary art. If it has something to do with money, odds are you'll find it here from November 11, 2016 until February 26, 2017.

That includes pieces by Conrad Bakker, Ian Burns, Penelope Cain, Joachim Froese, Melanie Gilligan, Fiona Hall, Andrew Hurle, Yves Marchand & Romain Meffre, Daniel McKewen, Christine McMillan, Kenzee Patterson, Ryan Presley, David Shapiro and Abdullah MI Syed, as well as others that will make you contemplate currency, economic systems and historical quirks. They're all topics you probably don't ponder that much these days, what with cash something many of us don't actually touch all that often.