The Invictus NFT Lab, which is run by the crypto asset management business Invictus Capital in collaboration with a group of artists and Web3 developers, intends to demonstrate the potential for blockchain technology to offer practical advantages to the real world. The task is to list the 118 professionally curated tangible artworks in the Out of Africa collection on the primary NFT market OpenSea.

For most of the attendees, it was their first introduction to the fascinating new world of NFTs.

The historic collection will be auctioned through OpenSea in April, with artworks from notable African artists in a variety of creative mediums sold to customers who have the right (but not the obligation) to take possession of the physical paintings and resale through an NFT marketplace.

Although the NFT market looks to be cooling, it remains one of the best ways for artists to access a global audience more readily, while enhanced transparency benefits both collectors and artists, helping to promote a dynamic global creative community.

The addition of a digital component to the Out of Africa collection opens up a new area for creative expression, which has been welcomed by the collection’s artists, several of whom have added animation to the NFT reproductions of their physical artworks.

The collection includes works by 43 well-known artists as well as cutting-edge young talent, demonstrating the breadth of the medium.

Artists may have their work easily presented within the growing number of metaverse locations by having a double life on the blockchain and in the real world.

Artworks range from the celebrated political commentary of Blessing Ngobeni’s blended media artwork to leatherwork by young Abongile Sidzumo and eccentric and vibrant Olivié Keck works (Olivié was recently featured by CNN and has long experimented with combining digital animation with physical artworks).

Beginning in April, these could be auctioned off in batches. To place bids, all that is required is a free Ethereum wallet, such as MetaMask, and the digital currency Ethereum. On the project’s website, there is a useful guide for getting started with each.

On OpenSea, you can see the collection in depth, and effort has been put into producing quality scans or images of every artwork for the NFT model, allowing you to see every brushstroke and minute detail (to zoom in on an art work, discover it on OpenSea, broaden it by clicking on the picture, right click and open the picture in a brand new tab).