Scott Campbell valuation
A tattooist by trade, who carves portraits into stacks of real banknotes with a laser.
Scott Campbell was born in Louisiana in 1977 and built a reputation as a tattoo artist in New York before the studio work took over. The best-known body of it is made by laser-cutting through thick stacks of banknotes — often US dollars — so that a skull or portrait emerges in relief through the layers, an object that is simultaneously sculpture, currency and a comment on both. He has also worked in glass, drawing and collaboration with fashion houses.
The banknote works are the identifiable market and they carry an unusual practical issue: the material is legal tender, which raises questions about defacement and about export in some jurisdictions that are worth settling before an international sale rather than during one. They are also physically delicate, since the cut edges are paper and cannot be repaired invisibly. Drawings, prints and glass works sit alongside. Provenance from the gallery or the artist is the norm and should stay with the piece.
What a work by Scott Campbell is worth
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