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he Contemporary Discoveries auction brings together a considered selection of bold new voices and boundary-breaking artists who are reshaping today’s creative landscape. Spanning painting, sculpture, and mixed media, the sale offers collectors the opportunity to engage with fresh perspectives and compelling new directions in contemporary art, thoughtfully curated within Sotheby’s global context.
From intimate portraiture to charged abstraction, these artists signal a new moment in British painting, urgent, personal, and globally attuned.
Neither copy nor parody, Pettibone’s works occupy the fertile space between homage and critique. His precise reworkings distill familiar images into acts of reflection, asking how meaning shifts when scale, context, and touch are recalibrated.
Otobong Nkanga transforms pigment, textile, and organic matter into works that navigate the tensions between human and natural worlds. Her art weaves ecological, social, and cultural narratives into intimate, tactile forms. Her works have been widely exhbitied in major public institutions, including her current exhbition Otobong Nkanga "I dreamt of you in colours" at the Musée d’Art Moderne de Paris, running until 22 February 2026.
A look at the lens-based practices shaping contemporary art today, from intimate portraits to conceptual explorations.
A dynamic selection of contemporary works under £10,000—an exciting opportunity to acquire exceptional pieces from rising and established artists.
