CONGRATULATIONS TO
THE FOLLOWING COMPETITION WINNERS

CHANNEL 4's BIG 4 COMPETITION
Congratulations to Stephanie Imbeau who has won the Channel 4’s BIG 4 public art competition. Her design will be unveiled outside the Channel 4 headquarters in August 2008. To find out more click here.

The competition was launched To celebrate both Channel 4's 25th anniversary and the opening of the Big Art Project Channel 4. A panel of arts experts launched this competition for Saatchi Online and STUART artists who graduated from a UK art school or university in 2006 or 2007, to design a sculpture incorporating the huge Channel 4 logo installed outside their headquarters in London. The first three artists - Nick Knight, Mark Titchner, El Anatsui - were chosen by Channel 4 and the fourth commission will go to a Saatchi Online or STUART artist. To view the other entries please click here.

HARPER COLLINS BOOK COVER DESIGN COMPETITION
Congratulations to Becca Thorne who has won the Harper Collins competition. Her winning design will be on the cover of the hardback edition of The Last Days of the Lacuna Cabal by Sean Dixon published on 1 July 2008.

The winner was chosen from the shortlist by a panel of experts all linked by their love of art and books. To view the 20 shortlisted entries click here

SONY WORLD PHOTOGRAPHY PRIZE
Congratulations to Saatchi Online photographer Arup Ghosh who was the overall winner of the amateur Sony World Photography Prize.

Congratulations also to the 100 photographers chosen to be exhibited on the Saatchi Online wall in Cannes. To find out more about the awards and see the Saatchi Online exhibition wall please click here

CONGRATULATIONS TO
STUART ARTISTS IN
NEW SENSATIONS EXHIBITION:

Congratulations to all the Saatchi Online and STUART artists whose work was exhibited in London during 'Frieze' week. The 4 New Sensations exhibition at the Old Truman Brewery in Brick Lane was a great success, following on from the Channel4 programs featuring the 4 winning finalists.

The works by Marcus Lanyon and Mark Melvin were acquired by the Zabludowicz Collection.

Mie Olise Kjaergaard sold her work to a private collector and was offered her first solo show in London next March at the Alexia Goethe Gallery.

Sarah Maple's work has gone to the Channel 4 art collection.

Louise Thomas sold her work to a private collector and was invited to participate in a group show at the Primo Alonso gallery in London next year.

Tori Murphy sold two works to a private collector. Victoria McGeoch sold her work to a private collector.

Gemma Nelson sold her work to a private collector and was asked to show one of her paintings from the 4 New Sensations exhibition in a forthcoming show at a gallery in Devon.

Eleanor Lindsay-Fynn was invited to show her work at the Salon gallery in London.


Toby Christian was nominated for ArtFutures 2008 and showed his work in this exhibition in London this March.

Stewart Clelland was invited to be in the crtl_alt _del sound festival in Istanbul and will also have an exhibition in the Royal Scottish Academy in March in Edinburgh.

The 20 artists in the 4 New Sensations exhibition were: Mark Melvin, Marcus Lanyon, Mie Olise Kjaergaard, Sarah Maple, Becky Kidson, Harriet Jordan Wrench, Tori Murphy, Stewart Clelland, Alan Chitty, Marte Haug, Freya Elliott, Eleanor Lindsay-Fynn, Louise Thomas, Beth Pearson, Jess Shepherd, Ian Larson, Victoria McGeoch, Gemma Nelson, Eugene Jho and Toby Christian.

CONGRATULATIONS TO
SAATCHI ONLINE ARTISTS AT
ART FAIRS:

SAATCHI ONLINE AT ZOO ART FAIR
This was the first time that we had shown the work of Saatchi Online at an art fair. Twenty artists chosen from the weekly Critic's Picks on Saatchi Online's daily magazine were invited to exhibit their work at the art fair in London. The work represented the range of work registered on Saatchi Online and we had very positive feedback about the concept of Saatchi Online and the standard of the work in the Saatchi Online exhibition. All the work at the exhibition was for sale on a non-commission basis.

Works by the following artists were sold at the exhibition: John Burke, Robin Cracknell, Robert Szot, Ursula Sokolowska, Oliver Clegg, Caron Geary, Caterina Lira Pereira, Cecelia Post and Nicole Morris.

Edgar Martins was offered representation by the Paul Kopeikin Gallery in Los Angeles.

Caron Geary was offered a solo show at a gallery in Spain.

Monika Bielskyte was invited to have a solo show at FOAM, the photography museum in Amsterdam this year.

OTHER NEWS ABOUT SAATCHI ONLINE ARTISTS DURING FRIEZE WEEK
Jaap de Vries and Paul Hazelton's work was included in 'Decadence, Decay and the Demimonde '.

Jaap de Vries's painting was bought on the opening night.

SAATCHI ONLINE AT FORM ART FAIR
Congratulations to all the Saatchi Online artists whose work was exhibited at the Saatchi Online stand at FORM 2008 which took place at Olympia in London (28 February – 2 March 2008).

15 works were sold in total by Saatchi Online artists Maurizio Anzeri, Carla Busuttil, Alex Crocker, Poppy Jones, Mie Olise Kjaergaard, Sarah Douglas and Whitney McVeigh. The work of these artists was sold free of any commission with the prices ranging from £400 to £3000.

SAATCHI ONLINE AT PULSE ART FAIR
Congratulations to all the artists chosen to exhibit their work on the Saatchi Online stand at Pulse Art Fair in New York. In total 31 works were sold with 9 out of the 15 artists whose work was exhibited selling work. Saatchi Online takes no commission from either artist or buyer. The artists who sold work at the fair are: Juliana Beasley, Sarah Bereza, Hannah Bureau, Dana Lauren Goldstien, Koya Abe, Sara Rahbar, Jennifer Sanchez, Alix Smith and Viktor Timofeev. Artists also exhibiting were Elena Bajo, Julian Beasley, Derek Buckner, Kenichi Hoshine, Shay Kun, Amy Stein, Haeri Yoo.

SAATCHI ONLINE AT SCOPE BASEL

A selection of European artists registered on the site exhibited at this year's SCOPE art fair in Basel.

The Saatchi Online stand was a huge success - 25 works were sold at the fair on a non-commission basis and there has been an overwhelming level of interest from collectors, gallerists, dealers and other people visiting the stand. The artists who sold work are: Lena Sadziak, Maurizio Anzeri, Jaap de Vries, Marco Salvetti, Teiji Hayama, Aleksandra Radonich, Angelika J Trojnarski and Giacomo Brunelli.

To find out more click here

CONGRATULATIONS TO THE FOLLOWING ARTISTS WHO HAVE RECENTLY BEEN SELECTED FOR SHOWS FROM SAATCHI ONLINE:

If you have been selected for an exhibition from Saatchi Online and would like to be highlighted here please email office@saatchigallery.com with the details of your forthcoming show, including the exhibition venue, title, dates and website address for further information.

Elena Bajo exhibiting at the Bimal Projects' Mindless Spot group show from 4 July - 31st September. For further information please visit: www.bimalprojects.de

Elena Bajo who has a group exhibition Wunderlust Berlin, at the Invaliden Onein Berlin. June 27 - August 31. www.invaliden1.com

Francesa Anfossi and Louise Thomas , whose exhibition, Sunspot Mirage, will be at BISCHOFF/WIESS from June 27th to July 26th. For more information please visit www.bischoffweiss.com

Mie Olise Kjaergaard who will have her first US solo show at the BARBARA DAVIS GALLERY which opens on July 12. For further information please visit www.barbaradavisgallery.com

Keith Baugh who will have a solo exhibition of drawings and paintings titled ‘Circus Women’ at The George Gallery, Newnham-on-Severn, Gloucestershire, GL141BB from August 15th to September 24th 2008. For further information please visit www.keithbaugh.com

Keith Baugh whose substantial portfolio of photographs of the legendary singer/songwriter BOB DYLAN have been snapped up by the leading music photography library Redferns. Please follow links on www.keithbaugh.com Redferns – photographers – Keith Baugh.

Katerine Luba whose work was exhibited at the Great Western Studios, London, 7-8th June 2008. To find out more please visit www.greatwesternstudios.com

Marguerite Horner and Florin Ungureanu , who have had their work chosen for this year's Summer Exhibition at the Royal Academy, London. For further information please visit www.royalacademy.org.uk

Kurchi Dasgupta who will have a solo exhibition at the Millennium Art Gallery, London from the 15th - 25th September 2008. For further information please visit www.bhaven.net

Rose Eken whose sculptured models and videos featured in the 'John, I'm only Dancing' group exhibition at the John Jones Project Space from the 25th April - 31st May. For further information please visit www.fellowesandpheasant.com

Mie Olise Kjaergaard whose work was shown at the DUVE Berlin gallery's stand (booth 3FC - 6) at the art fair ART BRUSSELS from the 18 - 21st April 2008. For further information please visit www.duveberlin.com

Eleanor Lindsay Fynn who has been offered a solo show of her photographs to take place from 15 September to 1  October 2008 at the Florean Museum in Romania. For further information please visit www.elfynn-photos.com

Mark Kadota whose video sound piece "YES" has been included in the USA selection for the World One Minutes exhibition, June 6 - June 28 at the Today Art Museum in Beijing. For further information please visit www.markkadota.com

Narendra Raghunath whose exhibition of wood reliefs and drawings were shown at the Contemporary Art Gallery (1 - 7 March 2008) in Ahmedabad, India.

Toby Christian whose work was included in Artfutures 2008 held at the the Bloomberg Space, 50 Finsbury Square London, EC2A 1HD, 6th -12th March. For further information please visit http://www.artfutures.org.uk

Marguerite Horner who has two paintings selected for the exhibition Inside Out, March 26th - April 19th at the Theatre Royal and The Link Gallery in Winchester.

Elena Bajo who was in group exhibition Interfacing Practices at the Magnus Muller Gallery in Berlin. The exhibition opened on Saturday 16th February and runs until March 29th. For further information please visit: www.magnusmuller.com

Shelly Jyoti who had a solo exhibition at Woman Made Gallery in Chicago.It will open on February 29th and runs until March 27th, 2008. For further information please visit: www.shelyjyoti.com/evite_mithila

Amy Stein one of the 10 finalists in the Your Gallery @ the Guardian competition in October 2007 and who has a solo exhibition at the Paul Kopeikin in Los Angeles. The Exhibiton Domesticated opened on Saturday February 16, 2008 and is scheduled to run through April 26, 2008. For further information please visit www.paulkopeikingallery.com

Mark Melvin one of the 4 New Sensations 2007 finalists, had a solo show in London which ran until 16 February 2008 at the Sassoon Gallery in London. For further information please visit www.thesassongallery.co.uk

Marcin Cienski whose solo exhibition at Fred gallery opened on January 17. The exhibition, called Testing, will run until 6 March 2008. For further information please visit www.fred-london.com

Maguerite Horner and Sneh Mehta whose work was shown at the Beverly Knowles Fine Art Stand at the London Art Fair from 16 – 19 January, 2008.

Elena Bajo whose work was included in the group show Wunderlust Berlin which ran from January 12 – February 9 at the Paul Kopeikin Gallery in LA. For further information please visit www.paulkopeikingallery.com

Claire Morgan who was ranked in the top 10 of the Art and Design category of the prestigious 2007 COURVOISIER The Future 500 list, produced in association with The Observer Newspaper. The 2007 COURVOISIER® The Future 500 list represents the very best of UK talent. The list of 500 individuals, representing ten business categories, was developed in partnership with trade publications and judges.

Congratulations to all Saatchi Online artists who exhibited in “AND, WHO ARE YOU?” at the Sara Tecchia Gallery in New York December 18 - January 2007. This was the first exhibition of Saatchi Online artists in America and was curated by Ana Finel Honigman, the New York correspondent on the Saatchi Online Daily Magazine. The exhibition was made up of eleven Saatchi Online artists from the New York area. For more information please see the magazine article.

Robin Cracknell whose work was recently acquired by The Fundacion Sorigue collection in Spain, who first saw his work at the Saatchi Online exhibition at the Zoo Art Fair in October. www.tht.org.uk

Joyce Waddell Bailey whose work Jack in the Beanstalk was appointed a Merit Award of Recognition by Larry Bradshaw, Prof. of Art at the University of Nebraska and will now be included in the group show 9th Annual Abstraction Juried Online International Art Exhibition," which runs until October 2008

Nigel Grimmer who had two exhibitions opening on December 1st 2007. His touring show, Plastic Life, opened at Focal Point gallery in Southend and ran to 5th January 2008. For more information please visit www.focalpoint.org.uk Nigel’s work was also in the group show Think Pink which opened on the same day at The Arts Forum in Hastings. The exhibition was a charity event for World Aids Day. For further information please visit www.tht.org.uk

Oliver Bedeman who had a solo exhibition of his paintings at the Out of the Blue Gallery, Spring Gardens Road, Bath. The private view was held on Saturday 8th December. For more information please visit www.outofthebluebath.co.uk

Caron Geary whose work was included in the group show Masks at the James Cohan Gallery. Works by 30 contemporary artists including Matthew Barney and Yinka Shonibare were shown alongside a collection of over 40 masks assembled by Joseph G. Gerena Fine Art, dating from 700 BCE through the 20th century. For more information please visit www.jamescohan.com

Joshua Hagler who won second place in the  international Art-Interview.com competition. As part of the prize Joshua will be exhibiting at Gallery 24 in Berlin early this year.

Sibylle Burr whose work was included in the group exhibition Hotel at the Arts Broadway Gallery, Broadway New York from 16 – 30 November

Vania Comoretti who was given a solo show Whispers at the Guidi&Schoen Arte Contemporanea Gallery in Genova Italy which opened on October 4th 2007. For more info please visit www.guidieschoen.com

Elena Bajo whose work was selected for a group show entitled "Myths" at Air Garten Galerie, Berlin, on view from 8th September to 4th October 2007. For more info please visit www.elenabajo.com

Sarah Jeffries whose work was featured in a group show at Contemporary Art Projects which opened August 3rd in London. For more info on this exhibition please visit info@caprojects.com

Stefan Havadi-Nagy whose work was selected for a solo exhibition Extasy-On at PRIMO PIANO LIVINGALLERY in Lecce, Italy. The exhibition ran until August 20th. For more information please visit www.primopianogallery.com

Shelly Jyoti whose exhibition Lyrical Abstraction- A Room of for Muses -was a composite installation of objects, clothes and paintings .The show exhibited more than 80 works on abstract art and muses at India Habitat Centre New Delhi at Experimental Art Gallery. www.shellyjyoti.com

Keith Baugh who's solo show of 30 paintings titled ‘Circus Women, Jazz & Rock'n'Roll' at the Malvern Theatre Gallery, Malvern, Worcestershire, England ran from June 11th until August 2007. For further information please visit www.keithbaugh.com

Jaap de Vries whose work was selected for a solo exhibitin at 20 HOXTON SQUARE in London in September. For further information please visit www.20hoxtonsquare.com

Rosenah Rasink whose work was selected for a solo exhibition at the Art Accent Gallery in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. For further information please visit www.rasink.com

Charlene Weisler whose work was selected for an exhibition at Bloomingdales Soho in New York. The exhibition ran from June 1 – June 30th at Bloomingdale’s SoHo, 504 Broadway, New York.

Jasiek Mischke whose work was selected for the group exhibition: A manipulated life at the 300% Gallery in Schiedam, the Netherlands. For further information please visit www.300procent.nl

Ben Young whose work was selected by the curator Jacki Lang, for the group show Napkin. Other artists in the show included Jake & Dinos Chapman, Gavin Turk and others. The show was held at The Gallery in Soho, and all the proceeds from the art sold went to food charities.

Katie Shapiro who had a group exhibition titled There Goes the Neighborhood at the OneLeaf Gallery in California. For more info please visit www.oneleaf.us

Cherie Bender whose painting Uber Femme was selected to be 56th Annual All Florida Juried Competition And Exhibition. The work was displayed on Cherie's Saatchi Online profile page.

Wayne Chisnall whose work Arterial Box was shown alongside Cornelia Parker, Richard Long, Langlands and Bell, Simon Patterson and many others in the group show 'Mapping' a at the Bury Art Gallery, Museum and Archives, Moss Street, Bury, Lancashire BL9 0DR (0161 253 5878).

Randy Wray who had a solo exhibition titled Chapter and Verse at the Black and White Gallery in New York which ran from April 27 to June 2, 2007. For more info please visit click here

Robin Cracknell who had a solo exhibition at The Whitecross Gallery in London, EC1 in June. The exhibition included 16 works by the artist and was called 'the Camera Suture'. For further information please visit www.whitecrossgallery.com

Olivier Bijon who participated in a group exhibition in Hamburg Germany at the Gallery le Cocon click here which ran from June 2nd until June the 28th

Orpheus whose work was selected for a solo exhibition gone crazy, back soon at Pirate: Contemporary Art Gallery. For more information please visit: www.pirateart.org

Kirsty Harris whose group exhibition Portrayal opened at The Three Colts Space in Bethnal Green. Kirsty's work was shown alongside work from Johanna Nilsson and Michael Nagle. Kirsty's work was also shown on the online gallery www.hoxtonsquaregallery.co.uk

Newel Hunter showed more than 30 of his black and white paintings in his first solo exhibition entitled Tales of Dark and Light at The Art Mine in Port Townsend, Washington.

Narendra Raghunath whose solo exhibition Journey was held at the Anameka Art Gallery in Chennai, India. For further info please email: architect@anameka.com

Anthony Caruana whose solo show Translucent Journey opened at the Art Academy Gallery in Malta. For more information please visit: www.artacademy@maltanet.net

Pat Stanley whose solo exhibition, Gaps & Edges was shown at the Upstairs Gallery in Port Hope, Ontario, Canada. For more information please visit click here

Mark Hemleben who had a work selected for the show Blossom - The Art of Flowers, which opened at the Houston Museum of Natural Science. The show was comprised of 50 paintings from around the world.

Elena Bajo whose site specific work I believe in fairies was included in the exhibition Destino: Futuro at the Real Jardin Botanico in Madrid.

Denise Parsons whose work was featured in a group show of 20 young artists showing new work in an exhibition called New Direction at Wall Space Gallery, Seattle, Washington. For more information please visit the gallery website at click here

Tori Murphy who had her first solo exhibition What has become of the Ladies at Nolia's Gallery, 60 Great Suffolk Street, London. For more information please visit http://www.noliasgallery.co.uk/

Peter Root whose exhibition Space Invaders with fellow Guernsey- based artist Mary Thompson opened at The Greenhouse Gallery at St Peter Port in Guernsey. For more information please call the gallery on 01481 749258

Catriona Millar whose paintings were selected for her first solo exhibition which will take place in the Air Gallery in London.

Katy Bailey who had a solo exhibition with the Galerie Arteconte, on the left bank in Paris, showing 20 of her new works.