Slawn valuation
Nigerian-born, London-based, and the youngest artist ever to design the BRIT Award.
Slawn is Olaolu Slawn, born in Lagos in 1999 and working in London, who arrived through skate and streetwear rather than through art school and built an audience at a speed that has few parallels. The paintings are loose, cartoonish, deliberately crude figures in bright acrylic and marker, and the work has run alongside collaborations with brands, a skate label and the design of the 2023 BRIT Award — the youngest artist to have done it. The rise has been fast enough that the secondary market is still finding its level.
Unique acrylic works on canvas lead, with a body of works on paper, editions and a large volume of collaborative product below them. This is a young market that has moved quickly in both directions, which makes date of acquisition and documentation unusually relevant to a valuation — where a work came from and when is often as material as what it is. Original invoices and any gallery paperwork are worth keeping together with the work.
What a work by Slawn is worth
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