Dear Art Student,

    The Saatchi Gallery would like to invite you to join Saatchi Online Student Artists – the world’s largest free online Student Art gallery www.saatchigallery.com/stuart
    Following the success of Saatchi Online – our online exhibition space for professional artists with over 110,000 registered artists - we have launched this new section of the site dedicated to Art Students from around the world.
    The Saatchi Student Artists site, which already has profiles of 35,000 art students from around the world, allows each individual to have their own page to display their work. The aim is provide a free forum for you to showcase your art and make connections with other students, dealers, curators and collectors from around the world.
    Registering for and using the site is a free service, with no costs involved at all.
    We have heard numerous success stories from students who have been invited to exhibit at international exhibitions and art fairs and who have been approached through the site by collectors from around the world interested in their work. We have also received international acclaim from the world’s press who have featured the work from our Saatchi Online Student     Artists artists in a number of press articles. 

Saatchi Online Student Opportunities    Each year we run a competition for students graduating from UK colleges entitled  New Sensations http://www.saatchi-gallery.co.uk/4ns/
    The four finalists from this competition are given L1000 to produce a piece of work in response to the theme. These four finalists also featured in a series of 3 minute documentaries broadcast on the Saatchi Gallery website and on Channel 4 in the UK in October. The overall winner of the competition receives L3000 to fund her artistic career. Last year the 20 shortlisted artists were invited to exhibit at the Truman Brewery (Brick lane, London) in a show that coincided with this year’s Frieze art fair. As a direct result of this competition Marcus Lanyon’s and Mark Melvin’s pieces were acquired by the Zabludowicz Collection and Mie Olise Kjaergaard sold her work to a private collector and has been offered her first solo show in London next March at the Alexia Goethe Gallery.
    More details about this year’s competition can be found at http://www.saatchi-gallery.co.uk/4ns/.  
    Our aim for this year is to continue to give our student artists similar opportunities internationally with opportunities to take part in group exhibitions and Art Fairs around the world. Upcoming events include SCOPE Art Fairs, Concrete and Glass as well as opportunities to exhibit at the new gallery and other events outside the UK.
    By registering with Saatchi Online Student Artists are also able to enter our SHOWDOWN section of the site, where artists can upload their work for viewers to vote on. The overall winner of the Showdown receives L1000 prize money and the runner up L750 and the winning works will go on display when the new Saatchi Gallery opens October 9th  in Chelsea, London.  A new round of SHOWDOWN is about to start if you wish to enter.
    We hope that the Saatchi Online Student Artists site will enable you to network

Artist: Brigitte Koelli
Year: 2007
Dimensions: 32 cm x 45 cm
Artwork description: Acrylic picture painted with excellent acrylcolors
Direct link to send this artwork: Click here

with other students from around the world, to share your inspiration and ideas, thus strengthening your work during your time at college.  We also hope it will provide a unique method of networking with those outside your college to help unite young artists as they venture into the professional art world.
     You can also keep up to date with news and reviews of exhibitions from around the world featured in our online Magazine and view the collections of the world’s leading galleries and museums. The viewers of the site are also encouraged to contribute their own views and reports to our blog and every week we publish a new essay from a leading art critic or artist. Saatchi Online members can also share their essays and read others in our visitors’ essays section. Over 3000 of the world’s leading art colleges are also represented on the site with details of their courses and showcases of their students’ artwork.
    You can include up to 50 images in your portfolio and add information about your interests, favourites and hobbies and images of Art work’s you like. You can also choose your privacy setting on the site allowing your profile to be viewed by everyone or only by your friends or those from your university / college or city. You also decide how much of your page people can see; ranging from just your work, to your whole profile.  
    The link to the site is http://www.saatchigallery.com/stuart and is now ready for you to start uploading your work, videos, photos, images etc by registering here http://www.saatchigallery.com/stuart/register
    We have also recently confirmed that there will be a permanent space in our new gallery located in Chelsea, London dedicated to showing the work of art students on Saatchi Online Student Artists.
    The Saatchi Gallery site now receives over 60 million hits a day and our Saatchi Online gallery has received worldwide press coverage including the New York Times, the Independent and The Sunday Times. Links to the stories can be found on the Stuart page or here:
New York Times
London Sunday Times
Independent