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Fremantle Print Award
The Fremantle Print Award is Australia's longest-running, most prestigious and largest printmaking award, and is awarded by the Fremantle Arts Centre, who also acquire the winning work. The award was established in 1976 with the support of Shell Australia. This partnership continued until 2006. With acquisitive and non-acquisitive awards the prize money totals , with $16,000 for the first place, and $6,000 for second. The awards were put on hiatus for 2020, due to COVID-19. Beginning in 2022, the awards will be held every two years. Several noted Australian artists have been recipients of the award including David Rose in 1978 and Mike Parr in 1990. Selected past winners include: * 1976 Ray Beattie''Print Matters 30 Years of the Shell Fremantle Print Award"' Holly Story ..et al 2005 FAC '' * 1977 Jock Clutterbuck * 1978 David Rose * 1979 Basil Hadley * 1980 Jörg Schmeisser joint with Rod Ewins * 1981 Paul King joint with Richard Hook * 1982 Ray Arnold joint with Tony Pank ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Printmaking
Printmaking is the process of creating artworks by printing, normally on paper, but also on fabric, wood, metal, and other surfaces. "Traditional printmaking" normally covers only the process of creating prints using a hand processed technique, rather than a photographic reproduction of a visual artwork which would be printed using an electronic machine ( a printer); however, there is some cross-over between traditional and digital printmaking, including risograph. Except in the case of monotyping, all printmaking processes have the capacity to produce identical multiples of the same artwork, which is called a print. Each print produced is considered an "original" work of art, and is correctly referred to as an "impression", not a "copy" (that means a different print copying the first, common in early printmaking). However, impressions can vary considerably, whether intentionally or not. Master printmakers are technicians who are capable of printing identical "impressions" by ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
