FINALISTS ANNOUNCED
Biennial Australian Monoprint Prize 2025
Artwork: 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 |
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 |
Our 2025 Finalists
Aidan Sefo
Untitled Monotype 
Aliki Yiorkas
Listening to the Silence Geli Plate Monoprint 
Andrew Totman
Fire and Ice Monotype Multi Drop 
Annika Romeyn
Falljökull Watercolour Monotype 
Declan Monaghan
Paperbark Monoprint on Paper 
Emma Magnusson-Reid
Drifted Matter IV Monoprint 
Helen Kocis Edwards
Blue Walking Monoprint using native plants and stencils from discarded plastic 
Janine McGinness
Waste 1 Ink Monotype 
Jo Darvall
Elemental Drift #2 Watercolour Monoprint with Pencil 
Kim McDonald
Ghosts and the Sensate Sea Monoprint 
Linda Judge
Passing Time Collagraph & Date Stamp 
Lois Waters
Pleat 7 Monoprint from Hand-Pleated Silk with Chine Colle 
Marketa Kemp
Somewhere Up the Yarra III Monoprint 
Neil Wallace
Two Figures Monoprint 
Peter Ward
Face About / About Face Monotype 
Samantha Thompson
Puzzle 3 Monoprint in Oil on Paper 
Shani Black
Moroccan Cat #1 Watercolour and Ink Monotype 
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Alexandra Janssens
Imposing Formation Monoprint 
Anastasisa Gardener
The Seaweed Monotype on Fabriano Unica paper 
Angus Cameron
Ground VI Monoprint and Collagraph 
Claire Young
Mugshot of Hong Kong Activist Monotype 
Elizabeth Barr
Between the Shadows Monotype 
Gary Shinfield
Remnants 3 Woodcut and Monoprint 
Jacqueline Larcombe
Postcard from Athens / 'Peach Ruins' Acrylic Silkcreen Monotype on paper 
Jenny Kitchener
Ghosts Prints: Falling (Diptych) Monoprint, Printed Collage, Cut Outs 
Kathryn Catterick
Connellys Marsh Monotype 
Lesley Duxbury
Clouding Over Rubber Stamp on Korean Paper 
Lisa Sewards
She is Wilting Monotype 
Marie Grant
Reclining Figures Collagraph and Monoprinnt 
Myra Kaufman
Dislocation 2 Collagraph and Monoprint 
Otto Macpherson
By the Shore Monoprint 
Sally James
Reflections at Adventure Bay, Bruny Island Tasmania Muli-Layer Monotype in Oil 
Sande Bruch
Edge of the World Waterbased Crayon Monotype on Japanese Paper 
Thomas Middlemost
WHDT Variation 2 Monotype |
Win Moser
Breathing Space #7
Monoprint
Breathing Space #7
Monoprint
