The Fremantle Print Award is Australia's longest-running, most prestigious and largest
printmaking
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award, and is awarded by the
Fremantle Arts Centre
The Fremantle Arts Centre is a multi-arts organisation based in a historic building complex on Ord Street in Fremantle, Western Australia.
The heritage-listed building complex was built using convict labour between 1861 and 1868 and was used ...
, who also acquire the winning work. The award was established in 1976 with the support of
Shell Australia
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. 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
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. 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
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In the 1970s, he ...
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
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* 1980 Jörg Schmeisser joint with Rod Ewins
* 1981 Paul King joint with Richard Hook
* 1982 Ray Arnold joint with Tony Pankiw
* 1983 Keith Cowlam joint with Michael Taylor
* 1984 Stewart Merrett joint with Monica Schmid
* 1985 Alun Leach-Jones
* 1986
John Spooner
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joint with Ruth Johnstone
* 1987 Karen Turnbull joint with Margaret Sulikowski
* 1988 Daniel Moynihan joint with Ron McBurnie
* 1989 Helen Ling joint with Megan Russell
* 1990
Mike Parr
Mike Parr is an Australian performance artist and printmaker. Parr's works have been exhibited in Australia and internationally, including in Brazil, Cuba, France, Germany, Hungary, Japan, Korea, Taiwan and the United States.
In the 1970s, he ...
* 1991 Jock Clutterbuck joint with Jodi Heffernan
* 1992 Heather Hesterman
* 1993 Bevan Honey joint with Sally Morgan
* 1994 Dean Bowen
* 1995
Jan Davis
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* 1996 Paul Brown
* 1997
Pat Brassington
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,
* 1998 Kathy Barber
* 1999
Raymond Arnold
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Career
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* 2000 Bede Tungatalum joint winner with
Chips Mackinolty
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Alick Tipoti
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Peter Burgess
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Alick Tipoti
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Fiona MacDonald
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* 2016 Sam Bloor
*2017 Evan Pank
*2018 Deanna Hitti
*2019 Rew Hanks
*2021 Alison Kennedy, 2nd prize John Prince Siddon