Born Again Art Limited and the Born for Art Foundation are thrilled to announce the launch of the highly anticipated NFT Collection of Charles Salvador, also known as Charlie Bronson, on January 29th, 2023.
Charlie has cultivated a reputation as an outsider artist with his paintings and illustrations of prison and psychiatric hospital life being publicly exhibited and winning him multiple awards, including 11 Koestler Trust awards for his art and poetry. Charlie has also been portrayed in previous years by BAFTA award-winning Tom Hardy in the film "Bronson," which loosely follows Charlie's life.
This exclusive collection, the first of its kind in the world, features 2000 rare, unseen pieces of Charlie's art and 8000 singular 3D pieces using an amalgamation of poems, interviews, and personal writing from Charlie's 47 years of solitary confinement.
It was in 1994 that prison officer Mick O'Hagan encouraged Charlie to take up art, and it has been his lifelong passion ever since. Spending 23 hours a day locked up. Charlie creates thousands of paintings, doodles, caricatures, and more significant artworks for charitable foundations and global exhibitions depicting his daily life in prison and the violence, inhumanity, brutality, and madness of living in the prison service and asylums throughout his life.
Some say that Charlie's artwork reveals the dark corners of a disturbed mind, while others argue that it reflects the events and deep emotions Charlie has witnessed and lived. Whatever your interpretation, there is no denying Charlie's art's raw, expressive power, described by art critics as "coming straight from the soul."
Charlie says, "I'm going to do my art and create masterpieces until my heart stops beating. I want to be one of the greatest artists. I am an artist, a man of peace."
This is a rare and unusual opportunity to own a piece of Charlie's creative genius. Each Digital Collectible is an authentic, verified, one-of-a-kind part of art history.
