Burnie Print Prize Exhibition 2025

Next date: Saturday, 10 May 2025 | 10:00 AM to 04:00 PM

The Burnie Print Prize presents the best works from established, emerging and cross-disciplinary artists. We welcome all artists living and working in Australia to enter a print or an artist’s book created utilising any printing process.

Offering a prize pool of $23,000 the winner will take home $17,000 cash, and an emerging artist $5,000, plus a $1000 people's choice award announced at the end of the exhibition period.

Supported by Arts Tasmania, Burnie City Council, Ten Days on the Island and Communion Brewing.

2025 Burnie Print Prize Winners

The 2025 Burnie Print Prize achieved a remarkable milestone, receiving a record-breaking 234 entries. This extraordinary response presented the judges with the challenging yet rewarding task of selecting a shortlist for this prestigious competition, featuring a combined prize pool of $23,000.

After careful deliberation, 76 works—representing approximately one-third of the total entries—were selected to feature in the 2025 Burnie Print Prize, to be proudly held at Burnie Arts.

Overall Winner: Lois Waters - Pleat 4
Emerging Artist: Alethea Richter - Filtered Light 2
Highly Commended: Michael Schlitz - the short weight

2025 Print Prize Artist Booklet

To every artist who submitted their work: thank you for sharing your creativity and vision with us. Your talent continues to inspire, and we’re so grateful for your contribution to making this year’s competition a resounding success.

The Burnie Print Prize was established in 2007 to:

Develop the Gallery's print collection
Present the best of contemporary printmaking
Support artists who work with the print medium
Foster innovation in the print medium
Promote an appreciation of the fine art of printmaking
Recognize and celebrate craftsmanship
Explore possibilities of the medium in contemporary practice

Entries are open only to print medium artworks. This includes artworks created through techniques such as relief printing, intaglio printing, planographic printing, and stencil printing. Digital reproductions of print artworks are also eligible for submission, provided the original artwork was created using traditional printmaking methods.

Artworks created using other mediums such as painting, drawing, sculpture, digital art (excluding digital reproductions of print artworks), photography, and mixed media are not eligible for entry.