Walyalup I Fremantle Arts Centre Print Award
Now in its 47th year, the Walyalup Fremantle Arts Centre Print Award is our longest running exhibition series and Australia’s premier print award. Each year, the award draws submissions from artists at all stages of their careers—a diversity that ensures the Print Award remains a vital and continually evolving exhibition, reflecting both the enduring traditions and the experimental frontiers of printmaking today.
The 2025 WFAC Print Award exhibition comprises 68 works that have been selected by an esteemed judging panel that includes Dr Jessyca Hutchens (Co-Director at the Berndt Museum, UWA), Hannah Mathews (Director/ CEO, Perth Institute Contemporary Art) & artist, printer and publisher Trent Walter (Negative Press, Naarm Melbourne).
Sat 16 Aug 2025 — Sun 21 Sep 2025
'Not Your Parrot'
Synthetic polymer paint on cardboard
87.7 x 41.5 cm
1/1 Tp
Printed by Trent Walter
Responding to the colonial history of ownership over the bodies and creations of Black, Brown and Indigenous people, ‘Not Your Parrot’ is a statement of defiance; a rejection of historic methods of treatment.
Referencing the carved head of a staff from the Gunadule people of Colombia’s north west, the artist is relating his experiences of societal treatment of bodily ownership to the illegal trade and theft of Indigenous objects from his mother’s homeland Colombia. This particular object stands in defiance to these histories; the Guna revolted against the Panamanian government's attempts to suppress their customs and culture. The artist is continuing this history of defiance.