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M&C Saatchi, in collaboration with Saatchi Gallery team up for second year to present international art initiative – the annual Art for Change Prize.

As part of a shared mission in making art, culture, and creativity accessible to everyone, this free-to-enter prize is a celebration of emerging artistic talent. It will highlight and stimulate dialogue around visual arts as a medium for positive global and social change and give exposure to emerging artists worldwide.

Key Dates

Overall winners announced: 21 November 2023
Exhibition Dates : 30 November 2023 – 7 January 2024

With the concept of Art for Change in mind, this year’s prize invited emerging artists from around the world to creatively respond to the theme of ‘Regeneration’.

M&C Saatchi and Saatchi Gallery are proud to announce the six regional winners:

• Americas Winner – Ingrid Weyland from Buenos Aires, Argentina for her work Topographies of Fragility XXXV and Topographies of Fragility XXXVI

• Asia Winner – Haining Wang from Beijing, China for her work Molt

• Australia Winner – Jen Valender from Melbourne, Australia for her work Sediment and Artist as Animal

• Europe Winner – Alina Zamanova from Kyiv, Ukraine for her work Our Children are Fighting too

• Middle East & Africa Winner – Chibuike Ifedilichukwu from Anambra, Nigeria for his work Equality State

• UK Winner – Natasha Bothelho Cook from London, England for her work The Garden of Dried Roses

The Prize

A total prize fund of £20,000 will be split between six regional winners, five to receive £2,000 each and one overall winner to receive £10,000.
All artists will exhibit their winning works in a dedicated exhibition at Saatchi Gallery in London, a recognised authority in contemporary art, where the overall winner will be announced on 21 November 2023

The Judges

Applications will be invited through an open call online and the prize is available to emerging artists based in the following M&C Saatchi key global regions UK, Europe, Americas, Asia, Australia, Middle East and Africa. A winner from each location will be decided by some of the best business and creative minds from M&C Saatchi Group globally and eminent guest judges. Judges include:

UK: Darren Bowles, Partner & Executive Creative Director at Re, Part of M&C Saatchi Group, Ronaldo Tavares, Executive Creative Director at M&C Saatchi Sport & Entertainment, Sophie Morgan, TV Presenter, Writer & Disability Advocate

Europe: Klara Eide, Partner & Executive Strategy Director at M&C Saatchi Stockholm, Christian ‘Kidde’ Schuck, Managing Creative Director at M&C Saatchi Berlin, Michael Elmenbeck, Founder and Creative Director of CF HILL Art Space and Bon Magazine

Americas: Nicholos Rotondi, Executive Creative Director at M&C Saatchi Sport & Entertainment North America, Lucas Crigler, Creative Director at SS+K, Part of M&C Saatchi Group, , Mickey Smith, Conceptual Artist and Photographer

Middle East & Africa: Robert Grace, Founding Partner and Head of Strategy at M&C Saatchi Abel South Africa, Ryan Reed, Chief Creative Officer at M&C Saatchi UAE, Zeinab Alhashemi, Conceptual Artist, specialised in site specific art installation and public art, Artist Mentor and Founder of Athmad Projects

Asia: Ali Shabaz, Chief Creative Officer at M&C Saatchi Singapore, Dami Sidharta, Chief Creative Officer at M&C Saatchi Indonesia, Nadya Wang, Editor of Art & Market and Fashion & Market, Lecturer at LASALLE College of the Arts, Singapore

Australia: Emma Robbins, National Executive Creative Director, M&C Saatchi Australia, Patrick Guerrera, Founder & Chief Executive Officer at Re, Part of M&C Saatchi Group, Claire Bridge, Artist Melbourne Now 2023, National Gallery of Victoria

About M&C Saatchi Group

M&C Saatchi Group is a creative company that connects specialist expertise, fuelled by data, technology and culture, to help clients navigate, create and lead meaningful change. The Group operates across five core divisions: Connected Creativity; Passion Marketing; Global & Social Issues; Brand, Experience & Innovation; and Performance Media. Headquartered in London, operations span 23 countries with major hubs in the UK, Europe, US, Middle East & Africa, Asia and Australia. M&C Saatchi Group’s two principles, Diversity of Thought and Brutal Simplicity of Thought, guide how they build teams and solve problems.

It is listed as ‘M&C Saatchi PLC’ (LON:SAA) on the AIM stock exchange in London.7

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This exhibition showcases four award-winning photographers and filmmakers undertaking ground-breaking work in their practices of eco-conscious photography and film. With a particular focus on their relationship with materials, process and methodologies, their works marry both the political and the poetic.

Exhibiting artists: 

Almudena Romero uses photography to explore ways of representing, seeing, and understanding. Romero’s works focus how art shapes perception, using naturally occurring photographic processes including photoperiodicity, photobleaching and photosynthesis.

Edd Carr’s material-led practice focuses on creating and utilising sustainable alternatives to photographic processes. He uses these methods create films that comment on the human relationship to ecological crisis and the mass extinction of life, and the resulting trauma we face as a species.

Hannah Fletcher works with organic matter such as soils, algae, mushrooms and roots which she transforms into photographic mediums and surfaces. She incorporates waste from her studio back into her work, contributing to a cyclical system of making.

Scott Hunter‘s practice fuses photography, sculpture, and installation. His work focuses on developing alternative approaches to the toxic methods of analogue photography by exploring the origins of raw materials and their symbiotic relationships within the construction of images.

This exhibition is supported by Pasqua Wines

The title of this exhibition is taken from Luke Hannam’s drawing How to Make a Head, 2024 , a head seemingly constructed from rectangular blocks. Not intended as a portrait of an existing person in the traditional sense, the work assembles life from scratch to create a humanoid form.

In this spirit of alchemy, all the artists in the exhibition have been handed the force of Prometheus, to blow life-giving fire into inanimate materials. The figures, bodies and body-parts seem to be in the process of coming alive through the imaginative use of materials and collage. Although they are made-up characters, the inhabitants of this exhibition feel strangely present.

Featured Artists
Dominic Beattie
Paul Cole
Jody DeSchutter
Tim Ellis
Lucy Evetts
Luke Hannam
James Alec Hardy
Harry Jones
Alec Kronacker
Tom Shedden
Robert Welch
Poppy Whatmore
Anisa Zahedi
Neil Zakiewicz

This exhibition is curated by Dominic Beattie.

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Join us to celebrate Nature’s Bounty, where an enchanting 8-metre floating table adorned with a vibrant tapestry of forest leaves sets the scene for a floral feast. Suspended above, seasonal blooms ascend towards the ceiling where they intertwine with cascading autumn leaves, symbolising the essence of life’s cycles. Crafted consciously by Tom de Houwer using locally grown, fresh-cut flowers from Marlston Farmgirl, this installation beckons viewers to reflect on our bond with nature and our shared responsibility to nurture it.

This exhibition is designed by Tom de Houwer and produced by HERB Flower Studio.