The 47^th Walyalup I  Fremantle Arts Centre Print Award returns in 2025 – Australia’s premier acquisitive exhibition of work using any printing process. The Fremantle Arts Centre Print Award is Australia’s most prestigious, longest running print prize.

The award and exhibition, which has been running for more than 40 years, boasts a national judging panel and $30,000 in prize money.

The Walyalup  I  Fremantle Arts Centre Print Award 2025 presents the best work from established, emerging and cross-disciplinary artists living in Australia aged 16 years and older.

Employees of the City of Fremantle are not eligible to enter.

JUDGES

Hannah Mathews is Director/CEO of the Perth Institute of Contemporary Arts (PICA).
Over the last twenty years she has held key curatorial positions at Monash University Museum of Art, Australian Centre for Contemporary Art, Next Wave, The South Project and the Biennale of Sydney.

Jessyca Hutchens is a Palyku woman living and working on Noongar boodja, and a Lecturer at the School of Indigenous Studies and a Co-Director at the Berndt Museum at UWA.
Jessyca is an art historian, curator, and writer.

Trent Walter is a Sri Lankan/Australian exhibiting artist, printer and publisher based in Naarm, Melbourne. He established Negative Press in 2009, where he works with artists and cultural institutions on printed matter. Negative Press also functions as Walter’s publishing imprint for collaborations with artists and for hosting occasional exhibitions.

Key Dates

Entries Close: 2 June 2025