BRITT SALT

BRITT SALT

Born 1985, Jambinu / Geraldton, Western Australia
Lives and works Melbourne / Naarm, Australia

Britt Salt works across tapestry, drawing, sculpture, installation and public art. Her works are complex in their construction and minimal in aesthetic, exploring site-specific and imagined architectures. Using elements of line, intuitive geometry and hand-crafted methodical processes, Salt traces the thresholds of perception – exploring colour you can’t see, sound you can’t hear, and space you can’t touch.

Salt has exhibited at PICA, Perth; Linden New Arts; Wangaratta Art Gallery; CRAFT, Melbourne; and Hazelhurst Regional Art Gallery. She has received prestigious awards such as the Art & Australia Emerging Artist Award, Freedman Foundation Travelling Scholarship, and Highly Commended – Kate Derum Award. Salt has undertaken residencies at the Australian Tapestry Workshop; Youkobo, Japan; Arteles, Finland; Heima, Iceland; and Red Gate Gallery, Beijing. She has also created major public artworks for Melbourne International Airport, Tsinghua University Beijing, and Fender Katsalidis Architects.

Salt holds a Masters of Contemporary Art (First Class) from Victorian College of the Arts (2023) and Bachelor of Fine Art (Honours- First Class) from Curtin University of Technology. Collections include Wangaratta Art Gallery; University of Melbourne; Justin Art House Museum; and Artbank. She was recently awarded the Fiona Myer White Story Residency and Best in Furniture at the Design Fringe 2024.