Neate Selects
Neate Selects are a collection of 10,000 unique NFT portraits from celebrated British artist Adam Neate.
Curated by The Spectacle Group, the works are generated from 425 images of original artworks from Adam’s personal archive, gathered over a career spanning 20 years. They’re minted and stored on NOIZ, an eco-friendly proof of capacity blockchain.
Artworks
“Portraits have always been a central theme in my art. I often try to paint what something feels like, more than what it looks like.”
Neate Selects are a celebration of Adam’s best-known portrait works. The collection is a powerful expression of his trademark ‘Dimensional’ style, and his constant and fearless exploration of different media over the years.
94
foreheads
83 ＋ 130
left and right facial images
77
necks
41
shoulders
5
background colours
We use NOIZ’s software to compose portraits using these images, with over 16 billion unique ways to generate each NFT. Thousands of portraits are generated before a human touch is applied by Adam and a team from The Spectacle Group, picking by hand the portraits that meet his aesthetic requirements.
425 close-up images of original works
Taken from Adam’s personal archive going back 20 years.
Covering every medium from Adam
From oil paint to spray paint, fabric, plaster, Perspex, wood, metal and iridescent foil.
Redefining the portrait and abstract art
In the form of uniquely generated NFTs.
Artist
Born in 1977 and originally from Ipswich, UK, Adam became fascinated with the colour and energy of graffiti since the age of 10. After training as a graphic designer, he began pursuing his long-standing desire to be an artist in the streets of London.
Self-taught and starting with spray paint and found objects, cardboard quickly became his medium of choice, giving him the freedom to rip, staple, fold and layer any shape he needed. It allowed him to explore space and dimension like never before.
With cardboard a signature of Adam’s works, the material remains inseparable from his name today. His use of it marked the beginning of his obsession in what he’s branded as ‘Dimensional Art’.
Always a free spirit and unrestricted by traditional practices, he spent the next two decades examining his style and experimenting with a range of other materials from oil paint to plaster.
“If I’ve got the idea that I want to have paint floating in the air, I try to make it happen – with acetate, Perspex, glass, or by any means necessary.”
Inspired by Picasso and Cubism, and with a splash of Expressionism, Futurism and Fauvism, he intentionally collides light with dark, hard with soft, and gloss with matte to manipulate space, shadow and perspective.
“I like to paint, but not necessarily with paint. I can use light, chrome and sand. Shadows or reflections. Frosted colours or sharp colours, to make it blurry and focused at once.”
Adam’s pieces invite viewers to move around the works and fully experience their multi-dimensional effects.
Having taken Dimensionalism to the next level, his works have gained recognition from the Tate, National Gallery and National Portrait Gallery, and broken auction records at Sotheby’s and Bonhams.
Team
Neate Selects are the creation of a partnership between The Spectacle Group and NOIZ, an art gallery and blockchain platform. In 2021, we made the world’s first NFTs to interact with physical paintings by Adam Neate.
The Spectacle Group
A contemporary art gallery that’s brought some of the most sought-after artists around the world to Asia, TSG represents Adam and has created NFTs for its other artists including Frank Vigneron, Antoine Gaussin and Marvelous Media Engine.
NOIZ
An efficient proof of capacity blockchain with low gas fees, NOIZ is building an ecosystem featuring a digital wallet called BEAM that supports crypto and fiat currency transactions, an NFT marketplace for buying, selling and transferring NFTs, and features such as augmented reality and metaverse access.
Giving
Charity has been the foundation of the Selects since the day we started this project.
A percentage of profits will go towards five causes, with our team and collectors’ community discussing and deciding which NGOs to give to in our Holders’ Lounge on Discord.
Roadmap
Besides the artistic value and charitable impact of the Selects, we want our collectors to enjoy benefits and exclusive experiences from the day we launch.
From launch in
August 2022
Low gas fees
Thanks to NOIZ’s efficient proof of capacity algorithm, which uses 2,000 joules of energy per transaction compared to 7,000,000 joules typically used by mainstream proof of work blockchains, Neate Selects benefit from negligible gas fees of $0.000083 per transaction.
Warranty
NFTs are still new, so we want to give as much peace of mind as possible. That’s why we’re offering a warranty programme where, in the event of theft or loss of asset, NOIZ can ‘burn’ the first NFT and re-mint a replacement, so long as the NFT is kept in the NOIZ blockchain. The new NFT will be identical in uniqueness, authenticity and functionality as the first.
Augmented reality
NFTs on NOIZ are held in their exclusive BEAM wallet. More than just for storing NFTs, the app’s additional functions enhance the way you experience your artworks. In AR mode, you can display and interact with your NFTs in real-world environments, and share your experiences on social media. Who says NFTs only live on a screen?!
September 2022
Neate Selects X Design Hotel
For two months, we’ll be partnering with a hotel in Hong Kong to give collectors a special experience combining NFT art, drinking and dining.
Stay tuned here and on our social media as the team finalises these details.
Late 2022 and beyond
We’re working on some exciting ways to build the future of Neate Selects, including access to special edition artworks and other rewards for collectors.
Some of our ideas include using artificial intelligence to create Adam-styled portraits, biometric personalisation to generate truly individual NFTs, and developing ‘3D Neates’ that can live in the metaverse.
We invite all collectors to join us in the Holders’ Lounge on Discord, as we’ll be developing our technology and bringing these artworks to life together with them.
Buying
Affordable Art Fair, Hong Kong
Neate Selects will be released by batch, with the first one (the genesis collection) being launched at the Affordable Art Fair Hong Kong on Thursday, 4 August, 4pm.
Find us at the Hong Kong Convention and Exhibition Centre, Hall 3BC, Booth A07.
Our team will be on hand to help set up your BEAM wallet, make your purchase, and show you additional functions such as AR mode.
To reward our earliest collectors, all 500 NFTs in the Gen-1 collection will come with matching special edition prints. For those who are buying from overseas, be sure to join our Holders’ Lounge in Discord where we can arrange to ship your print to you.
Individual purchase
If you’re not lucky enough to be in Hong Kong in August, you can still get your hands on a Neate Select by downloading BEAM wallet and following this simple process:
1 Open an account
2 Go to “NFT Market”, which is BEAM’s in-app marketplace
3 Find the Neate Selects collection, where you can browse through available artworks
4 Choose your NFT, input your payment details and transact
Pricing
The collection is being launched at:
USD 480
HKD 3800
NFT warranty coverage is provided by YAS Digital Limited (“The Company”). The Company reserves the right to accept or decline any application.