47th Walyalup Fremantle Arts Centre Print Award Exhibition runs from Sat 16 Aug 2025 — Sun 21 Sep 2025 | 10:00am — 5:00pm

 

47th Walyalup Fremantle Arts Centre Print Award

I'm a Finalist - Jo Lankester

Location: Walyalup I Fremantle Arts Centre

Celebrating its 47th edition, the Walyalup Fremantle Arts Centre Print Award stands as Australia's most prestigious print competition and the Centre's longest-running exhibition series of its kind. Each year, artists from varying stages of their careers submit their work, creating a rich and diverse selection that allows the Print Award to thrive as a contemporary exhibition. This showcase highlights both the time-honoured traditions and the innovative experiments happening in printmaking today. The work I entered and selected is one of my most ambitious multi-plate coloured prints. 

The artwork, titled Chatter, explores the significance of community, place, memory, and interconnectedness, symbolised through the presence of the Black Cockatoo, often seen amongst the beach almond trees of Townsville and Magnetic Island. Our conversations shape the memories that bind us, just as these trees adapt and flourish in their coastal environment, demonstrating resilience and adaptability. The vibrant life represented by the Black Cockatoo inspires dialogue about our connections to nature and one another. Chatter highlights that our shared experiences and relationships are woven into the fabric of our community and are essential in shaping our sense of place and belonging.

Jo Lankester
Chatter, 2025
Unique state multi-plate colour intaglio, planographic, collage, polyptych
Image size: 200 x 225cm
Image: Louis Lim. Courtesy of the artist and Onespace

The 2025 WFAC Print Award will feature 68 selected pieces, chosen by a distinguished panel that includes Dr. Jessyca Hutchens (Co-Director at the Berndt Museum, UWA), Hannah Mathews (Director/CEO of the Perth Institute of Contemporary Art), and Trent Walter, an artist, printer, and publisher from Negative Press in Naarm Melbourne.

2025 Print Award Finalists:

Studio 29B, Eero Almeida, Kelsey Ashe, Benjamin Bannan, Julie Barratt, Ange Bateman, Rebecca Beardmore, Alexander Beetle, Sam Bloor, Trevor Bly & Patrick Doherty, Ron Bradfield Jnr, Michael Bullock, Johnathon World Peace Bush, Emma Buswell, Mitch Cairns, Jon Campbell, Ruby Cason, Jacky Cheng, Matthew Clarke, Dominique Coiffait, Jo Darbyshire, Annabel Dixon, Mauretta Drage, Troy Drill, Jacqui Driver, Lesley Duxbury, Robert Fielding, Freyja Fristad, Caroline Goodlet, Freya Hall, Angela Hayson, Deanna Hitti, Dwayne Jessell, Martin King, Hiroshi Kobayashi, Jo Lankester, Eric Lobbecke, Frances Malcomson, Tim McLaughlin, Tim Meakins, Mimili Wati Group, Louise Monte, Zali Morgan, Sally Mumford, Brett Nannup, Kate O'Shea, Jana Papantoniou, Emily Parker, April Phillips, Perdita Phillips, Maree Purnell, Alethea Richter, Brian Robinson, Joshua Searle, Mervyn Street, Ella Sutherland, Bill Taylor, Jacinta Taylor-Foster, Carine Thevenau, Peter Gooloou Thomas, Samantha Thompson, Richard Trang, Justin Trendall, Lois Waters, Kylie Watson, Noah Williams, Evangeline Wilson & Prita Tina Yeganeh

Jo Lankester - Printmaking Artist. Produced by Eyeswide Imaging and Alex Christopher

I was recently invited to participate in a Townsville Artists Digital Storytelling Project organised by Eyeswide Imaging and Alex Christopher who received RADF funding for the production of ten short films featuring local artists and their conceptual development

The project was a pleasure to be a part of and the filming was a lot of fun also.

Thank you Eyeswide Imaging and Alex Christopher for the invitation to participate and producing a great website to go with it.

Website: Townsville Artists stories about practice, process and concept

Artist Richard Free is a Happy Customer

At Brush & Press Studio we offer a custom printing service for artists to produce their work.

Richard Free is a Townsville based water colour artist who thought he would try his hand at Lino Cutting. Without the skills or equipment to produce his print Sammy & I printed the edition for him.

Jo Lankester

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Richard Free

Absolute Reason To Find A Mentor

Hello, thanks for taking the time to read my blog on printmaking.

Last Friday, 18 June 2010, I paid my mentor Tate Adams a visit to show him my latest work. My visit had three objectives, One, to deliver a print purchased from the exhibition XXX+WHY, two, show Tate my recent work for critique, and third, selection of a print for inclusion in his next publication.

I was blown away when he told me at the opening of XXX+WHY that he was saving a page at the end of his next publication for one of my prints, so as you can imagine I was nervous and excited leading up to this visit.

Tate, as always welcomed me with warmth and excitement in anticipation to see what I had created. I bought 5 prints for him to view. He chose a large black collagraph for the publication and was very happy in deed. He was so pleased with the print that he was straight off to the framer with it the next day.

The small colour collagraphs which I thought he would like were not his favorites, he did however respond well to my large 2 plate colour collagraph which I left with him to ponder over.

We then had a cup of tea and I sat and listed to stories of his life journey and love affair with art, I feel so privileged for this experience and to hear what  influenced his visual art journey. I could never read or experience this in a written biography.

The absolute reason to find a mentor is for this experience; during our conversation Tate said "Jo, you need someone to believe in you, without that you will not know if you are on the right track, if so your likely to give up"

I lefts Tate's place knowing he believes in my ability to be a successful artist. In saying this Tate has given me so much confidence and trust in myself as a printmaking artist, I sure to reach my goals.

To Your Printmaking Success,
Warmly,
Jo Lankester

P.S Acquire your arts business skills at www.howtogetstartedinprintmaking.com

P.P.S What you are is what you have been, and what you will be is what you do now.
Buddha

 Jo Lankester
Stone Wall VI, 2010
Sugarlift Aquatint
12 x12.5cm
$70.00 AUD




© Jo Lankester 2010