Britt Salt is the recipient of the Art & Australia / Credit Suisse Private Banking Contemporary Art Award for Summer 2012

Britt Salt is the most recent recipient of the Art & Australia / Credit Suisse Private Banking Contemporary Art Award. Her work Puzzlethèque, 2012 is featured on the back cover of Art & Australia's Summer 2012 issue.

"To be a recipient of the Art & Australia / Credit Suisse Private Banking Contemporary Art Award is really exciting," said Britt Salt. "The exposure and support of this award is great. It will allow me to develop the breadth of my art practice and mature as an artist. I'm looking forward to future opportunities to be involved with new audiences, new ways of working and new collaborations, particularly architectural."

Salt’s practice utilises and subverts the inherent ‘heavy-duty’ quality of commercial products such as powder-coated aluminium and industrial mesh to create sculptural and light based interplays of patterned forms. The twenty-seven year old artist has conducted residencies in Perth, Sydney and Melbourne. Her artworks are held in collections such as Artbank and feature nationally as commissioned pieces. In 2010, Salt was awarded the Freedman Scholarship.

Art & Australia is the country’s longest-running art journal and was established by publisher Sam Ure Smith in 1963.

Awarded quarterly since 2004, and administered by the National Association for the Visual Arts, the Art & Australia / Credit Suisse Private Banking Contemporary Art Award encourages artists in the first five years of their professional practice.

Credit Suisse AG is dedicated to supporting emerging art as a global initiative. Headquartered in Zurich, it operates in over fifty countries worldwide. In Private Banking, Credit Suisse provides comprehensive advice and a broad range of wealth management solutions, including pension planning, wealth and inheritance advice, which are tailored to the needs of high-net-worth and ultra-high-net-worth individuals worldwide.