This is fantastic news and I'm even happier because you used the word "gobsmacked " which is always good...it kinda sounds like a kinda nice rock-and-roll album by somebody along the lines of Patti Smith.  Congratulations on being selected!  I love your work, and on a side note, I cannot look at a padlock the same way again.  An artist is someone who does that: makes someone see the uncommon in the "common" and you do that so wonderfully, AND to top it off, your non-padlock photography and your digifiddles and your sculpture and your gardening are all as exquisite!  Congratulations.  I'm doing the Happy Dance now.