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The Death Of Luxury
‘The Death Of Luxury’ is a series of 9 designs to be printed on silk scarves. The scarves, like the NFT designs, will be completely unique – 1/1 ultra rare! The designs themselves are influenced by the events and memes of 2020 – to name a few, the Ghanaian coffin dancing meme, the US election, […]
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Behind The 20k Dorian Banknote Design
Ticking off the touchpoints of Bitcoin Art, it was inevitable that I would get to Dorian at some point. From my perspective, Dorian Nakamoto is a real life personification of Bitcoin’s ‘early adopter’ phase – the result of a mistaken, frantic search for Bitcoin’s true founder during its first run to $1000+. This innocent period […]
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Advice For Artists: The Van Gogh Paradox
What is success? Is money success? Money is the major limiting factor in our lives, which makes it a contentious measure of success. To say it isn’t so seems to ignore our dependency on money. But to say that money=success would unfairly imply that the starving millions are failures. My personal view changes depending on […]
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The Last Drops Of 2020!
I had a very specific art plan for 2020, which in spite of everything, is on track. I wanted to take my techniques to beyond portraiture, beyond the banknote format, to make huge, ambitious, detailed art. I’m pleased to say, September will be the month where I reach my goal. This work is time-consuming and […]
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Tom Badley Speaks! Art, Censorship & Global Update
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The Transparent Pixel — Cryptoart’s Bananagate? A Thesis In 5 Parts
I. Innocence The thing that characterizes cryptoart and the rare digital art/collectible space, in its present form, is innocence. Anything in its early stages is filled with hope and promise, and a sense of pioneering fresh, unexplored space. This applies literally to the multi-metaverse, but equally to cryptoartists embarking on their making journey, and the […]
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MoCDA & KnownOrigin In conversation with Tom Badley
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THE OPEN10 PODCAST #15: TOM BADLEY CURRENCY ART DESIGNER
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Reconcile: Artist Statement On New Work
View new work on SuperRare here: https://superrare.co/tombadley The full meaning of my work isn’t yet known. You can’t see the full picture yet… I consciously make art from a place of knowing — to some extent — the future. I reach into the future and grab my ideas from there. So, although the work exists […]
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Tom Badley live stream with Blockchain Art Exchange