Congratulations to all the Saatchi Online and STUART artists exhibiting their work in London during 'Frieze' week. The 4 New Sensations exhibition at the Old Truman Brewery in Brick Lane has been a huge success with over 600 people attending the opening night, hundreds of people visiting the show during the week and many people voting at the show for their favourite artist out of the 4 finalists. Several artists have already sold work from the show and have also been approached by galleries to exhibit their work. The Saatchi Online exhibition at Zoo has also been very popular - we have made sales on behalf of the artists in the show and several artists have also been approached by galleries interested in representing their work. Many artists visiting the exhibition were excited by the website and are going to be uploading their work, and we were able to introduce Saatchi Online to a lot of international curators and collectors who weren't aware of it before.
4 NEW SENSATIONS
The 4 New Sensations exhibition, the culmination of the competition Saatchi Online has been running with Channel 4, opened last Tuesday with over 600 people attending the opening. Students, teachers from the London art colleges, artists such as Gavin Turk and Martin Creed, Simon de Pury, the founder of the auction house Phillips de Pury & Co, gallery directors all came to the launch of the exhibition.
The works by Marcus Lanyon and Mark Melvin have been acquired by the Zabludowicz Collection.
Mie Olise Kjaergaard has sold her work to a private collector and has been offered her first solo show in London next March at the Alexia Goethe Gallery.
Sarah Maple's work will go to the Channel 4 art collection.
Louise Thomas has sold her work to a private collector and has been invited to participate in a group show at the Primo Alonso gallery in London next year.
Tori Murphy has sold two works to a private collector.
Victoria McGeoch has sold her work to a private collector.
Gemma Nelson has sold her work to a private collector and has also been asked to show one of her paintings int eh 4 New Sensations exhibition in a forthcoming show at a gallery in Devon.
Eleanor Lindsay-Fynn has been invited to show her work at the Salon gallery in London.
Becky Kidson has been approached by a gallery in Naples about showing her work next year.
Toby Christian has been nominated for ArtFutures 2008 and will be showing his work in this exhibition in London next March.
Stewart Clelland has been invited to be in the crtl_alt _del sound festival in Istanbul and is also having 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.
Voting for the four finalists - Mark Melvin, Marcus Lanyon, Mie Olise Kjaergaard, and Sarah Maple - is going on until midnight on Sunday 21 October. We will announce the winner of the 4 New Sensations competition on Monday 22 October. Click here to vote for your favourite artist.
SAATCHI ONLINE AT ZOO ART FAIR
This is the first time that we have 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 that range of work registered on Saatchi Online and we had fantastically 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. The BBC filmed the exhibition for a forthcoming programme about the art world presented by Alan Yentob. The programme will go out on BBC1 in November. Artnet are also going to be running an article about Zoo Art Fair and the Saatchi Online exhibition.
Works by the following artists were sold at the exhibition: John Burke, Robin Cracknell, Robert Szot, Ursula Sokolowska, Oliver Clegg, Caron Geary, Catarina Lira Pereira, Cecelia Post and Nicole Morris.
Edgar Martins has been approached by the Paul Kopeikin Gallery in Los Angeles about exhibiting his work there and by Timothy Taylor gallery in London.
Ursula Sokolowska has been approached by a gallery in Spain about showing her work there.
Oliver Clegg has been approached by a gallery in Spain about showing her work there.
Caron Geary has been offered a solo show at a gallery in Spain.
Paul Hazelton has been approached by a London gallery about representing his work.
Alastair Bailey has been approached by a gallery in Texas about representing his work.
Monika Bielskyte has been invited to have a solo show at FOAM, the photography museum in Amsterdam next year.
Selfridges have expressed interest in the work of Kelly Gardner for a new project they are launching next year to have artists' work in their windows. A gallery in New York is also going to be contacting Kelly Gardner about her work.
A new gallery in Paris is interested in representing John Burke.
A foundation for contemporary art in Spain has expressed interest in Robin Cracknell's work.
We have also been approached by an independent curator to do further Saatchi Online exhibitions and by Art Chicago to do a Saatchi Online exhibition at this art fair in the US next year. We are also pursuing taking Saatchi Online artists to a fair in New York in 2008. We hope to be able to provide further information about these possible events very soon.
OTHER NEWS ABOUT SAATCHI ONLINE ARTISTS
Congratulations also to Saatchi Online artist Jaap de Vries whose work we put forward for a show called 'Decadence, Decay and the Demimonde ', which also took place during 'Frieze' week. The painting by Jaap de Vries was bought on the opening night.
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