Oliver Beer, stills from 'Retraining', 2009
Channel 4 and The Saatchi Gallery are delighted to announce that Oliver Beer is the winner of this year's New Sensations prize. The prize is open to art students graduating from BA and MA courses in the UK in 2009, and 20 shortlisted students are currently presenting their work in an exhibition opening in London on until 19 October. Oliver Beer graduated from the Ruskin School of Drawing and Fine Art, Oxford, and his work was chosen by judges Gavin Turk, artist; Ralph Rugoff, director of the Hayward Gallery, London; critic Louisa Buck; and Alison Jacques, owner of Alison Jacques Gallery in London.
New Sensations was launched in 2007 by Channel 4 and The Saatchi Gallery to find the most imaginative and talented artists graduating in the UK and to support students leaving art college. In 2007 and 2008 shortlisted students have sold their work and been offered exhibitions as a result of the competition.
An exhibition of the 20 shortlisted graduates chosen by the judges is at the A Foundation at the Rochelle School in Shoreditch (9-19 October). Four finalists were given a bursary to make a new work which is being presented at the exhibition, and each of these 'New Sensations' has had a 3 Minute Wonder Channel 4 film made about them which were aired on Channel 4 from 5-8 October.
The other finalists were: Andreas Blank, Royal College of Art, London; Nick Goss Royal Academy Schools, London; and Regine Petersen Royal College of Art, London.
Regine Petersen
Nick Goss
Andreas Blank
As a sponsor of New Sensations 2009, Moncler will invite one of the shortlisted artists to make a new work based on its duck mascot: a pop operation with an ultra-contemporary twist which involves entrusting a piece of itself to the inventive talents of an artist. All proceeds from the sale of this work will go to a children's charity.
New Sensations www.saatchigallery.com/4newsensations
1. Students entering the competition had to submit work from their degree shows and had to be graduating from a BA or MA course in 2009 and not be represented by a gallery.
2. The other 16 shortlisted graduates are:
Amy Woodward Camberwell College of Art, London
Laura Culham University College Falmouth
Maurice Citron Byam Shaw School of Art, London
Thomas Yeomans, Slade, London
Jennifer Fergie, Glasgow School of Art
Camilla Holder, University of Brighton
Dong Yoon Kim, LCC, London
Nick Mobbs, Royal College of Art, London
Natasha Conway, NCAD, Dublin
Zack Thorne Wimbledon College of Art, London
Ryan Leigh Wimbledon College of Art, London
Rachel Adams Edinburgh College of Art
Anna-Maria Pfab, LCC, London
Mikhak Mirmahmoudi Newcastle University
Richard Cook, Edinburgh College of Art
Tim Ellis Royal Academy Schools, London
3. The New Sensations 2009 exhibition will be at the A Foundation, Rochelle School, Arnold Circus, Club Row, London E2 from 9-19 October.
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