THIS year’s Walyalup Fremantle Arts Centre Print Award is the most lucrative yet with a prize pool of $30,000.

Now in its 47th year, the biennial exhibition is the nation’s longest running, biggest and most prestigious print award.

The 2025 overall winner will take home a cool $20,000, with the First Nations and Young Emerging Artist winners pocketing $5000.

Innovative

Exhibition highlights in recent years have included Jacky Cheng’s Yue Lao – God of Matchmaking and Marriage created from recycled Chinese calendar papers; Jay Staples and Stephen Brameld’s incidental artwork Forest, a Merbau tannin timber-to-fabric transfer on canvas, and Kieren Karritpul’s Traditional Fish Basket, a collagraph print.

The Walyalup Fremantle Arts Centre Print Award will be judged by a panel of nationally acclaimed artists and academics.

Judges will be looking for a diverse selection of prints and artist books which challenge what print making is in its many forms; from small to large-scale across a range of innovative and emerging print making methods including 3D, textile, etching, lino and wood cutting, digital and screen printing.

Acclaimed

Shortlisted works will be exhibited at Walyalup Fremantle Arts Centre Saturday August 16 – Sunday September 21, and the winner announced on opening night, Friday August 15.

All exhibited artworks at the exhibition are for sale, with the winning piece acquired for the City of Fremantle Art Collection, the largest municipal art collection in WA.

To find out more see FAC website – tinyurl.com/y5hw4t7d.