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.
