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Good New$ Bank (Cassie Thring and Nicholas Hanisch), What Money Can’t Buy, 2026, papier-maché, paint, ceramic and glaze, photo by Sam Roberts

Good New$ Bank (Cassie Thring and Nicholas Hanisch), What Money Can’t Buy, 2026, papier-maché, paint, ceramic and glaze, photo by Sam Roberts

Good New$ Bank (Cassie Thring and Nicholas Hanisch), Pool o’Wealth, 2026, plaster and gold enamel, photo by Sam Roberts

Good New$ Bank (Cassie Thring and Nicholas Hanisch), Pool o’Wealth, 2026, plaster and gold enamel, photo by Sam Roberts

Good New$ Bank (Cassie Thring and Nicholas Hanisch), Fat $tack, 2026, ceramic, glaze and gold enamel, photo by Sam Roberts

Good New$ Bank (Cassie Thring and Nicholas Hanisch), Fat $tack, 2026, ceramic, glaze and gold enamel, photo by Sam Roberts

Bentham Street Gallery

Karl Meyer with Exhibition Studios

Motional – Objects by Association (2024) by Karl Meyer with Exhibition Studios collectively form an outdoor street gallery that showcases works of artists and creatives.

Current Exhibition: $afety Deposit Box

'$afety Deposit Box' by Good New$ Bank (Cassie Thring and Nicholas Hanisch), is a playful, layered installation created for the Bentham Street Gallery.

Riffing on the Bentham Street Gallery as safety deposit boxes, Good New$ Bank uses familiar signifiers of wealth—fat stacks of cash, diamond rings—a dose of humour, and hidden symbols to ask, "What does our community value?" These artworks highlight the tension between outward displays of wealth and the poignancy of sentimental, treasured objects.

Visitors are encouraged to scan the QR code by the Gallery to contribute to the growing Good New$ database, a participatory archive of what people choose to value and why.

Nicholas Hanisch and Cassie Thring's collaborative practice, Good New$ Bank, is a hopeful resistance to cynicism: bored with widespread nihilism, they imagine communities where good news is valued above all. Their work explores how society measures success and wealth and proposes an alternative through art.

The Bentham Street Gallery was commissioned for the Market to Riverbank (M2RB) link project, a $14.6 million joint investment project between the City of Adelaide and the State Government (through Renewal SA).

Bentham Street, Adelaide

Year Produced

2024

Materials

Stainless steel, security laminated glass, LED lighting

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