After graduating from art school, Trevor Jones was “completely broken” and struggling to make ends meet – but the early adopter of NFTs, or non-fungible tokens, is now one of the most successful crypto artists in the world.
In 2021, the Edinburgh-based painter famously smashed records when he sold an open edition NFT of his painting, The Bitcoin Angel, for the equivalent of £2.4m. He’s also teamed up with the likes of Succession’s Brian Cox, Scottish singer-songwriter KT Tunstall, and crime author Ian Rankin on a series of 2017 celebrity portraits titled The Famous, and worked closely with the American rapper Ice Cube over the course of seven months for their collaborative, mixed-media body of work, 2021’s Man Vs. Machine.
