Directors' Notification of Dealing in Shares

Artisan (UK) PLC
18 April 2000

                          Artisan (UK) plc 
                          ('the Company') 
 
                       Director's Shareholding 
 
The Company was notified yesterday that Stephen Dean, Chairman of the Company,
had purchased on 17 April 2000, 250,000 ordinary shares in the Company at
15.5p per share. This transaction increases Stephen Dean's beneficial holding
in the Company to 24,000,000 ordinary shares representing 9.7% of the issued
share capital.