The painting’s pre-sale estimate is £40,000 to £60,000.
(Picture: Dave Benett)The award winning Grime MC has had a successful 20 year long music career, and now adding to add to his long list of achievements, he is venturing into the world of contemporary art. Skepta is auctioning off a painting at the Contemporary Curated sale at Sotheby’s. It’s his debut painting, titled Mama Goes to Market, depicting a Nigerian market.
He told the Financial Times that he created Mama Goes to Market in 2020, when his shows were cancelled as a result of the Covid-19 pandemic. “I guess I was just so used to expressing myself all the time, every two days, out doing a show somewhere new,” he said, adding that he wasn’t “gonna write a song about lockdown and staying in.”
