NEW SENSATIONS: SAATCHI GALLERY & CHANNEL 4'S PRIZE FOR 2011 UK GRADUATES

NEW SENSATIONS 2011

Welcome to the Saatchi Gallery and Channel 4's New Sensations Prize. We had a record number of entries this year (over 600) and were thrilled with the standard of work submitted by students graduating from universities and colleges across the UK and Republic of Ireland. The judges chose 20 graduates to show their work in an exhibition in London during Frieze Week in October 2011. Out of this shortlist of 20, the judges also selected four outstanding young artists who were given a bursary to make a new work to present at the exhibition. Each of the four finalists also had a short Channel 4 film made about them which were aired in October.

The winner of this year's New Sensations Prize, chosen by the judges, is Jonny Briggs, who graduated with an MA from the Royal College of Art, London. A Special Commendation prize was awarded to Gabriella Boyd, who completed her BA at the Glasgow School of Art.

The New Sensations Prize was launched in 2007 to find and support the most imaginative and talented artists graduating in the UK and Republic of Ireland. Since it was started five years ago the Prize has given young graduates many opportunities - they have sold their work, been taken on by galleries, invited to be in exhibitions both in the UK and internationally and shortlisted for other prizes as a result of their work being seen in the New Sensations exhibition. The prize is open to all art students who are graduating from a BA or MA course at an art school or a fine art/photography department of a UK or Republic of Ireland university or college.

THE 2011 JUDGES

The judges for the 2011 New Sensations Prize are the artists Hew Locke and Chantal Joffe; Kate Bush, Head of Barbican Art Galleries; Tabitha Jackson, Commissioning Editor, Arts, Channel 4; Tony Chambers, editor-in-chief, Wallpaper magazine; and Rebecca Wilson, associate director of the Saatchi Gallery.

THE 2011 NEW SENSATION EXHIBITION

The New Sensations exhibition took place from 11-17 October 2011at B1, Victoria House, Bloomsbury, London WC1, in a 22,000 sq ft venue exclusively represented by Location House.

NEW SENSATIONS PARTNERS

We would like to thank the specialist insurer Hiscox for being the Principal Partner for New Sensations 2011. We are also grateful to Wallpaper magazine, our media partner, Winsor & Newton for supplying the artists with materials, and Mason & Taylor for providing British real ales and wine for the private view of the New Sensations exhibition.





NEW SENSATIONS 2001 WINNER
Jonny Briggs

SPECIAL COMMENDATION
Gabriella Boyd

OTHER FINALISTS
Ronin Cho
Krystina Naylor

NEW SENSATIONS 2011 FINALISTS
Artists are ordered by surname

Gabriella Boyd
Jonny Briggs
Ronin Cho
Krystina Naylor

RANDOM ACTS: CHANNEL 4'S FILMS OF THE 4 FINALISTS

Gabriella Boyd

Ronin Cho



Jonny Briggs

Krystina Naylor