2009 Art & Australia/Credit Suisse Private Banking Contemporary Art Award recipients

Bush is an emerging Dunedin-based artist, whose main medium of expression is gouache and pencil on paper.

By Talia Linz

Skrzypczak’s gestural skins engage with the tradition of painting, summoning the wild legacy of American abstract expressionism in landscapes that are meditative, poetic and delightfully visceral. Often starting with an image collected from a newspaper or ink drawing, landscapes soon become sculptural toxic oozes that both lure and repel.

By Marni Williams

Maisie asks us to think about the imposed limitations of personal communication technologies with a body of work that spans photography, video, sound, and interactive installation. Deploying technology in a gallery setting, Maisie sparks conversations between our bodies and sculptural, sound or video elements.

By Marni Williams

Kregar's large polyhedronal structures, installed variously among nature or in a constructed gallery environment, both dissolve into and amplify their surroundings. His figurative work plays with reproduction, the effect of the multiple and the notions of artistic and personal identity.

By Talia Linz