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The winner of the November Saatchi Online Studio competition is Bert Eelen. Saatchi Online contributor, Angela Marisol Roberts, comments: 'In the tradition of expressionist painters like Philip Guston, Bert Eelen's work renders the subtle psychology of the human face through layered textures, line sketches and blocks of intense colour.' We will announce the winner of the next Saatchi Online Studio competition on Thursday 24 December. The Saatchi Gallery will then donate £500 to a children's ho... read more...

The winner of the October Saatchi Online Studio competition is Benkosasih. Saatchi Online contributor, Rebecca Geldard, comments: 'Benkosasih's bold layering of digi-realm scenography and print-like motifs encourages multiple abstract and figurative painterly readings.' The Saatchi Gallery will donate £500 to a children's hospital around the world chosen by the winner. ... read more...

Aladdin Garunov's work relies heavily on cultural and textural juxtapositions. In many of his pieces the spiritual vocabulary of the east, represented by fragments of hand-knotted carpets from central Asia or copies of Byzantine mosaics, strikes an uneasy balance with the strident materials and textures of Western modernism. Together they represent a tactile point of intersection at which cultural and spiritual codes intermingle, change and are eventually diluted.
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The Canadian city's art-dominated neighbourhood is distinctive for its vast network of collective activity that has functioned thus far without reliance on the support of blue chip galleries and establishment aesthetics. Will the inevitable gentrification and 'starbuckification' of the area rub the edge off of the work produced by its artists? Angela Marisol Roberts reports. ... read more...