Original Story Published by: Nduata Waweru, Art Attack for Face2Face Africa
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Before she started her show, In Studio with Sharon Obuobi, Ghanaian-born art writer and innovator, Sharon Obuobi worked as a founding member of the Modern & Contemporary African Art business at Sotheby’s. Her passion for art started long before all these.
“I was born into a family of artists, my father is an artist along with his siblings. We always had music playing at home and in the car. So I was raised with creativity around me, but I didn’t consider pursuing art as a career path until I started to discover conceptual films online,” she says.
She started chronicling these discoveries on a blog called Auburn Butterfly, turning her curiosity in art into a passion that took her to the Studio Museum in Harlem, Creative Time in New York, Art Twenty One in Lagos, Alison Milne in Toronto, and most recently Sotheby’s.
At Sotheby’s Modern & Contemporary African Art department, she contributed to providing a platform for Africans on the continent and diaspora to offer their work.
“It was very important to set up the Modern & Contemporary African Art department at Sotheby’s to create a dedicated platform for offering the works of artists from Africa and the diaspora."
"In the art market, auctions are an important part of the value chain so they can be useful in raising the profile of artists. As the auction market for the works of artists from Africa and the diaspora is still very small and only makes up about 1% of the global market, we needed to contribute to the growth of this segment,” she says.
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