Biennial Australian Monoprint Prize 2025
Artwork: 2023 Monoprint Prize Winner - Debra Winn, 'Annealing' (Detail)
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Firestation Print Studio is again hosting this National Prize We are excited to announce our Finalists for 2025 listed below Exhibition Dates: 23rd April – 17th May 2025 Offical Opening and Announcements: 1st May 6-8pm 2025 Monoprint Prize Judges: Lisa Sullivan: Senior curator at Geelong Gallery, & Emily Ferretti: renowned Australian Painter and printmaker. Thankyou to our Major Sponsor Melbourne Etching Supplies 
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Our Esteemed Judging Panel for 2025
Image Courtesy of Hails and Shine
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LISA SULLIVAN is Senior Curator at Geelong Gallery where she leads the delivery of the annual exhibition program and contributes to the development, research, and interpretation of the collection.
Curatorial projects presented at Geelong Gallery include the current exhibition Cutting Through Time—Cressida Campbell, Margaret Preston, and the Japanese Print.; Clarice Beckett—Atmosphere (co-curator); Frederick McCubbin—Whisperings in wattle boughs; Rone in Geelong; Stephen Bram – abstract painting; The Moon; Cuttings—Elizabeth Gower; Ex libris – the book in contemporary art; A curious nature – the landscape as theatre in contemporary photography; The silent wilderness – 19th century Australian landscapes; and True crime – murder and misdemeanour in Australian art. Prior to joining Geelong Gallery in early 2005, she was the Collections Curator at the Ian Potter Museum of Art at the University of Melbourne (2001–05), and the University’s Grimwade Intern in 2000. Lisa completed post-graduate studies in Art Curatorship and Museum Management at the University of Melbourne in 1998, and in 2003, an extensive study of the British Museum’s Prints & Drawings Collection as the Harold Wright Scholar and the Sarah and William Holmes Scholar. |
Image Courtesy of Alicia Taylor
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EMILY FERRETTI is a painter based in Naarm/Melbourne. Dedicated to a full-time studio practice over the past 20 years, she has exhibited widely and undertaken studio residences including Gertrude Contemporary, Melbourne, Cite de Arts International, Paris, and Green Street studio, New York. Ferretti has had over 20 solo exhibitions in commercial and artist run spaces in Australia and Internationally and represented in significant group shows and prizes. Some prizes of note include, the Geelong art prize, John Leslie art prize and the Len Fox painting prize as well as the Ramsey Art Prize at the Art Gallery of South Australia.
Her figurative and abstract images derive equally from collected images, memory and imagination. As a result, her images mirror their conception, hovering between representation and abstraction. Recurring motifs in her work include landscape and still life scenes and while they are always devoid of people, their presence is palpable. Attuned to contemporary practice, Ferretti’s paintings engage with a history of picture making across genres and traditions. Ferretti is represented by Sophie Gannon Gallery in Melbourne. Her work has been acquired by major collections such as Acacia Collection; Artbank; Coffs Harbour Regional Gallery; Epworth Hospital Collection; Joyce Nissan Collection; The Macquarie Group Collection; Monash University Museum of Art; Victoria University, Charles Sturt University art collection; private collections in Australia and internationally |
Winners
FIRST PRIZE - ANDREW TOTMAN, FIRE AND ICE
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Judges Comments: Fire and Ice is a sophisticated work in concept and execution. The artist has built a complex and layered image that tests the possibilities of the monotype medium. We were drawn to the incredibly fine detail and depth achieved. Totman’s abstract work alludes to the natural world and, as the title indicates, the opposing states of fire and ice. The work has a luminosity – almost an inner glow – that conjures the heat and intensity of a flickering flame and simultaneously, the shimmering translucency of frozen water. Notions of opposing states extend to a sense of movement and stillness within the composition, as well as variations in transparency and opacity of the inks. Beautifully executed and presented, this subtle yet enigmatic work continued to draw us in and rewards close and considered viewing. |
SECOND PRIZE - LESLEY DUXBURY, CLOUDING OVER
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Judges Comments: Clouding Over is a lyrical work that brings together art history, language, and science. This visually complex, poetic monoprint is inspired by famed British landscape painter John Constable’s cloud studies of 1820-22, the nomenclature of clouds developed by amateur meteorologist Luke Howard in the early 1800s, and the constantly changing atmospherics of the sky. Using individual rubber stamps to compose the Latin names of clouds, Duxbury introduces varying degrees of intensity in repetition, layering and inking, to define cloud formations, and, as the artist states, to convey ‘the shifts and fluctuations in the sky as clouds dissipate and reform’. Duxbury’s study of historical engravings – specifically variations in the width of incised lines to achieve tonality in depicting skies and clouds – represents an interesting exchange between different printmaking processes and eras. The immediacy and uniqueness of the monoprint medium is perfectly suited to the subject of ever-changing, unfixed cloud formations, while the choice of thin tissue paper similarly lends itself to the imagery: the subtle movement of paper suggesting the mutability of clouds and weather conditions. |
Our 2025 Finalists
Aidan Sefo
Untitled Monotype $180 
Aliki Yiorkas
Listening to the Silence Geli Plate Monoprint $250 
Andrew Totman
Fire and Ice Monotype Multi Drop $2,200 
Annika Romeyn
Falljökull Watercolour Monotype $2,800 
Declan Monaghan
Paperbark Monoprint on Paper $300 
Emma Magnusson-Reid
Drifted Matter IV Monoprint $175 
Helen Kocis Edwards
Blue Walking Monoprint using native plants and stencils from discarded plastic $600 
Janine McGinness
Waste 1 Ink Monotype $450 
Jo Darvall
Elemental Drift #2 Watercolour Monoprint with Pencil $2,200 
Kim McDonald
Ghosts and the Sensate Sea Monoprint $850 
Linda Judge
Passing Time Collagraph & Date Stamp $500 
Lois Waters
Pleat 7 Monoprint from Hand-Pleated Silk with Chine Colle $630 
Marketa Kemp
Somewhere Up the Yarra III Monoprint $1,200 
Neil Wallace
Two Figures Monoprint $500 
Peter Ward
Face About / About Face Monotype $750 
Samantha Thompson
Puzzle 3 Monoprint in Oil on Paper $1,900 
Shani Black
Moroccan Cat #1 Watercolour and Ink Monotype $350 
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Alexandra Janssens
Imposing Formation Monoprint $400 
Anastasisa Gardener
The Seaweed Monotype on Fabriano Unica paper $285 
Angus Cameron
Ground VI Monoprint and Collagraph $990 
Claire Young
Mugshot of Hong Kong Activist Monotype $100 
Elizabeth Barr
Between the Shadows Monotype $350 
Gary Shinfield
Remnants 3 Woodcut and Monoprint $1,200 
Jacqueline Larcombe
Postcard from Athens / 'Peach Ruins' Acrylic Silkcreen Monotype on paper $300 
Jenny Kitchener
Ghosts Prints: Falling (Diptych) Monoprint, Printed Collage, Cut Outs $595 
Kathryn Catterick
Connellys Marsh Monotype $50 
Lesley Duxbury
Clouding Over Rubber Stamp on Korean Paper $1,000 
Lisa Sewards
She is Wilting Monotype $1,200 
Marie Grant
Reclining Figures Collagraph and Monoprinnt $550 
Myra Kaufman
Dislocation 2 Collagraph and Monoprint $320 
Otto Macpherson
By the Shore Monoprint $300 
Sally James
Reflections at Adventure Bay, Bruny Island Tasmania Muli-Layer Monotype in Oil $1,100 
Sande Bruch
Edge of the Word Waterbased Crayon Monotype on Japanese Paper $650 
Thomas Middlemost
WHDT Variation 2 Monotype $220 |
Win Moser
Breathing Space #7
Monoprint
$165
Breathing Space #7
Monoprint
$165
