New Zealand artist Jess Johnson sold her first NFT artwork last month. The buyer was a music producer from Dubai who appears to be a major collector of NFTs, Johnson told Business Insider Australia over email. Another bidder was a well-known art collector from Iran. She believes her presence on an NFT platform opened up a new audience of buyers for her work. “I don’t think either of them would have been aware of me or my art beforehand,” she said. Johnson’s career, which began with drawing in 2012 but in recent years has expanded into installation, animation and virtual reality, with exhibitions in Tokyo, New York ... (full story)