New Sensations

Installation Shots From: Gaiety Is the Most Outstanding Feature of the Soviet Union
Installation Shots From: Gaiety Is the Most Outstanding Feature of the Soviet Union
Installation Shots From: Gaiety Is the Most Outstanding Feature of the Soviet Union
Installation Shots From: Gaiety Is the Most Outstanding Feature of the Soviet Union
Installation Shots From: Gaiety Is the Most Outstanding Feature of the Soviet Union

NEW SENSATIONS 2012

THE 2012 JUDGES

The judges for the 2012 New Sensations Prize were the artists John Stezaker and Richard Wilson; Shonagh Manson, Director of the Jerwood Charitable Foundation and Jerwood Visual Arts; Jake Miller, founder of The Approach gallery in London; Nancy Durrant, arts commissioning editor of The Times; Tabitha Jackson, Commissioning Editor, Arts, Channel 4; and Rebecca Wilson, director of the Saatchi Gallery.

THE 2012 EXHIBITION

The New Sensations 2012 exhibition took place from 9-15 October 2012 at 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 Absolut for partnering this year's New Sensations prize and exhibition. Absolut, in collaboration with the Saatchi Gallery, presented several events for emerging artists and young collectors during the exhibition.

We are grateful also to The Times, media partner for New Sensations 2012. They featured the prize and exhibition in their editorial pages, and The Times's arts commissioning editor, Nancy Durrant, was on the panel of judges.

We would also like to thank Location House for working with us again on the exhibition at Victoria House.

NEW SENSATIONS 2012

Welcome to the Saatchi Gallery and Channel 4's New Sensations Prize

The Saatchi Gallery & Channel 4 are delighted to announce the winner of the 2012 New Sensations Prize, Nicolas Feldmeyer. The judges have also awarded a Special Commendation to Steven Allan. The winner of the ABSOLUT Blank commission, a new element of this year's Prize, is Antonio Marguet.

Nicolas Feldmeyer's work opens a contemplative perspective onto the world. Inspired by archaic monuments, the Sublime and Taoism and working in a wide range of media, his work articulates "a quiet quest for what lies beyond or before words". He was born in 1980 in Switzerland, and after completing an MSc in architecture in Zurich, studied Fine Arts at the San Francisco Art Institute on a Fulbright Grant. He graduated from the Slade School of Fine Art, London, this year with an MFA with distinction.

Steven Allan completed his MA this year at the Royal College of Art in London. He was born in Scotland and has spent the last 8 years living and painting in London. Much of Steven Allan's work contains biographical references or layers of meaning gathered from everyday imagery. His recent paintings have explored the humanisation of objects such as bananas, tea bags and paint tubes.

Antonio Marguet, originally from southern Spain, creates "object-sculptures" which he photographs, and it is only the image that lasts in his exploration of our fetishisation of objects. For this year's ABSOLUT Blank commission he made a work inspired by the distinctive shape of the ABSOLUT bottle.

The works of these three winners were shown at the New Sensations exhibition, along with works by 17 other shortlisted artists.

New Sensations was launched in 2007 to find and support the most imaginative and talented artists graduating in the UK and the Republic of Ireland. This year's ABSOLUT Studio Fund, with works donated by Mat Collishaw, Chantal Joffe, Hew Locke and Yinka Shonibare, raised prize money to help fund studios for the winners.

The judges for this year's New Sensations Prize were the artists John Stezaker and Richard Wilson; Shonagh Manson, Director of the Jerwood Charitable Foundation and Jerwood Visual Arts; Jake Miller, founder of The Approach, London; Nancy Durrant, arts commissioning editor of The Times; Tabitha Jackson, Commissioning Editor, Arts, Channel 4; and Rebecca Wilson, Director of the Saatchi Gallery.

The Times Review, 09-10-2012

NEW SENSATIONS 2012 FINALISTS

Artists are ordered by surname

CHANNEL 4'S FILMS OF THE 4 FINALISTS

Rafal Topolewski

Nicolas Feldmeyer

Olivia Poppy Coles

Steven Allan

NEW SENSATIONS 2012 SHORTLISTED ARTISTS

Artists are ordered by surname

Alex Ball	Bartosz Beda	Nicholas Dedics	Amanda Doran
Eimear Friers	Rachel Hunt	Hyojun Hyun	Jin Han Lee
Antonio Marguet	Aileen Mcewen	Claire Moore	Natasha Peel
Eoghan Ryan	Amba Sayal-bennett	Aleksandra Wojcik	Tereza Zelenkova