Cash is King @ Saatchi Gallery

Cash Is King is an art project and book series that returned in 2019 after a sell out 2018. It celebrates the art of defaced banknotes. Created by Bob Osborne and Carrie Reichardt, it brings together artists from around the world who turn real money into bold and thought-provoking artworks. Each banknote becomes a tiny canvas that’s painted, collaged, or reworked to explore ideas about value, money, and power.

The project transforms everyday cash into a creative statement, challenging how we see money and what it represents. By using real banknotes, the artists blur the line between money and art, between what’s legal and what’s rebellious, and between commerce and creativity.

The first Cash Is King book was released in 2018 as a limited edition hardback, filled with full-colour images and essays about art, money, and protest. A second volume came out in 2019, alongside an exhibition at the Saatchi Gallery in London. The second edition see my works featured in the book.

Together, the books capture a global art movement that turns symbols of wealth and control into works of resistance, humour, and imagination, showing that even cash can be art.