Evening Standard X Trevor Jones coronation NFT lights up Oxford Street

The Evening Standard’s new commemorative NFT marking the coronation of King Charles III is illuminating London’s Oxford Street this weekend.

Scotland-based painter Trevor Jones has collaborated with the Evening Standard to make the exclusive artwork, available as an exclusive free NFT for Evening Standard readers.

The painting is now being shown across large screens on the building of W1 Curates, a public art platform in the heart of London’s iconic Oxford Street.

It will be available to view from Friday May 5 until Sunday May 7.

First created in his Edinburgh studio by Jones as a physical painting, The Oath depicts the grand jewels of St Edward’s Crown — which was also worn by the late Queen Elizabeth II during her 1953 coronation — in vibrant brushstrokes. Once digitised into an NFT, the final work reveals a multi-layered world of animation, all inspired by the gravity of the coronation as an iconic event in the UK’s history.

However, rather than being purchased using crypto-currency like many other NFTs, readers are able to obtain an NFT of The Oath with only an email address and at no expense. This is aimed at increasing accessibility to this growing area of the art world.

Jones said: “I wanted this particular piece to be for the people and anyone anywhere can mint one of these NFTs for free.”

He told the Standard’s How to be a CEO podcast: “It’s a very unique thing for me to do, I’ve done very well in the space and to create an artwork for such a historical event, to work with the Evening Standard, and then to be able to give this artwork to anyone in the world who wants to have it and they can keep it, they can sell it, they can give it to a friend they can do whatever they want with it.”

Cryptoartist Trevor Jones has collaborated with the Evening Standard to make a commemorative coronation NFT
Trevor Jones

Readers will need only an email address to take their own Oath as the artwork will be available as an open-edition NFT from Thursday until midnight on Sunday on the Nifty Gateway website.

The Oath will be available to view at W1 Curates, 161-167 Oxford Street, until May 7.

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