Director's Shareholding

Artisan (UK) PLC
25 July 2000

                    Artisan (UK) plc
                            
                 Director's Shareholding


The  Company was today informed that Mr Stephen Dean  had
purchased  today 4,500,000 ordinary shares in Artisan  at
14p per share.  Mr Dean's resultant holding in Artisan is
29,000,000  ordinary shares representing  11.04%  of  the
company's issued share capital.