"There are paintings here which make an unpredictable splash" - The Independent, 2009

View the Shortlisted works below. The artists in the 2009 exhibition:

Michael Ajerman · Faya Anderson · Nicholas Archer · Malcom Ashman · Bridgette Ashton · Lillias August · Tom Badley · Louise Balaam · Sarah Bell · Paul Benney · Akash Bhatt · Paul Brason · Orlanda Broom · Chris Burns · Bronwyn Carr · Simon Casson · Lucy Cavendish · Peter Clossick · David Crocker · Michele del Campo · Thomas Doran · Annabel Dover · Clara Drummond · Bella Easton · Michael Fairclough · Veronica French · Jennifer Godlieb · Judith Green · Philip Green · Beatrice Haines · Jaemi Hardy · Marie Harnett · Nadia Hebson · Julie Held · Roland Hicks · Lucy Jones · Oliver Jones · James Judge · Peter Kelly · Sara le Roy · Joseph Leppard · James Lloyd · Jessie Mahtani · Barry McGlashan · Sharon McPhee · Melanie Miller · Peter Monkman · Kate Montgomery · Eleanor Moreton · Marianne Morild · Liam Neary · Joseph Paxton · Zachary Peirce · Cathie Pilkington · Beverley Porter · Ian Potts · Daniel Preece · Stephen Read · Shauna Richardson · Sara Rossberg · Alli Sharma · Tim Shaw · Nahem Shoa · Laura Smith · Louis Smith · Nigel Tacey · Sadie Tomilnson · George Triggs · Jason Walker · Sheila Wallis · Torie Wilkinson · Helen Wilson · Lynne Wixon · Eugene Wood · Robbie Wraith · Lisa Wright · Peter Wylie · Rose Wylie · Aishan Yu · Suzie Zamit

FBA Emerging Artist Prize

Aishan Yu, Beck at the table

Shortlisted 2009

Jaemi Hardy, Clara with Chinese horse

Lucy Jones, Over the Hill

Melanie Miller, Green hydrangea

Tim Shaw, The Middle World

Louis Smith, St Peter on the Cross

Sheila Wallis, Self-portrait

Rose Wylie, The Manufacturers