The Fremantle Print Award is Australia's longest-running, most prestigious and largest

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award, and is awarded by the

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, who also acquire the winning work. The award was established in 1976 with the support of

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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

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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 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 Jörg Schmeisser (20 February 1942 – 1 June 2012) was a noted and award-winning printmaker. Biography Schmeisser was born in Stolp, Pomerania, Germany (modern Słupsk, Poland); he studied at the Hamburg Fine Art Academy, Germany during 196 ...

joint with Rod Ewins * 1981 Paul King joint with Richard Hook * 1982

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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 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 * 1991 Jock Clutterbuck joint with Jodi Heffernan * 1992 Heather Hesterman * 1993 Bevan Honey joint with Sally Morgan * 1994 Dean Bowen * 1995

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* 1996 Paul Brown * 1997

Pat Brassington Pat Brassington (born 1942) is an Australian contemporary artist working in the field of digital art, and photography. Born in Hobart, Tasmania, she was named Australia's key surrealist working in photomedia. Brassington's work has been ex ...

, * 1998 Kathy Barber * 1999

Raymond Arnold Raymond Arnold (b.1950) is an Australian printmaker and painter based in Queenstown, Tasmania. Career Born in Melbourne, Arnold visited Queenstown, Tasmania during his teens and witnessed the impact mining had on the local landscape. He woul ...

* 2000 Bede Tungatalum joint winner with

Chips Mackinolty Chips Mackinolty (born 12 March 1954) is an Australian artist. He was involved in the campaigns against the war in Vietnam by producing posters, and was a key figure in the radical poster movement. Early life Chips Mackinolty was born on 12 Ma ...

Therese Ritchie Therese Ritchie (born 11 April 1961) is an Australian contemporary artist, writer and graphic designer, based in Darwin in the Northern Territory. Career Ritchie was born in Newcastle in New South Wales. After moving to the Northern Territory, ...

* 2001 Marion Manifold * 2001

Alick Tipoti Alick Tipoti (born 1975), whose traditional name is Zugub, is a Torres Strait Islander artist, linguist, and activist of the Kala Lagaw Ya people, from Badu Island, in the Zenadh Kes (Torres Strait). His work includes painting, installations, ...

, Non-Acquisitive Prize * 2002 Poppy van Oorde-Grainger * 2003 Antonietta Covino-Beehre * 2004

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* 2006

Neil Emmerson Neil Emmerson (born 2 November 1956) is an Australian artist and printmaker based in Dunedin, New Zealand. His work often addresses personal identity, as well as the experiences and politics of being a gay man, both in Western culture, as well as ...

* 2007

Tony Ameneiro Tony Ameneiro (born 1959 London, UK arrived Australia 1968) is an Australian contemporary visual artist whose work focuses around his drawing and printmaking practice. Biography Ameneiro was born in London in 1959 to Spanish parents and emigrate ...

* 2008

, Non-Acquisitive Prize * 2010

Rebecca Beardmore Rebecca Beardmore is a Canadian contemporary printmaker, photographer and installation artist. Her work can be found in many museums and galleries in North America, Europe, Asia, and Australia. Born in Montreal, Canada, she currently works in Sydn ...

* 2011 Peter Burgess * 2012 Lucas Ihlein &

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* 2013 Alex Maciver * 2014 Gosia Wlodarczak * 2015

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, Maria Madeira and Victor De Sousa * 2016 Sam Bloor *2017 Evan Pank *2018 Deanna Hitti *2019 Rew Hanks *2021 Alison Kennedy, 2nd prize

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