Flourish Award 2022

Flourish Award
Shorlisted artists

Selected from open submission, the 12th Flourish Award for Excellence in Printmaking will bring together a diverse range of printmaking by selected artists from across the UK, presented in venues in the north of England in 2022.

We are delighted to announce the shortlisted artists for this year’s Flourish Award. Included in the touring exhibition are:

Caitriona Dunnett, Daniel Howden, Dianne Murphy, Francesco Poiana, Ian Brooks, Jodie Wingham, Lesley O’Neill, Lidija Antanasijević, Liz Wilson, Mario Gonzalez, Mita Solanky, Sarah Duncan, Stephen Fowler, Theadora Ballantyne-Way.

The exhibition will showcase a diverse range of printmaking techniques and themes with a rich mix of abstract and figurative work exploring local and global issues. There are intriguing visual narratives around urban and natural landscape in a time of climate change; personal stories and emotional journeys; migration and memory; flights of imagination and even astrophysics.

Selected from open submission, the 12th Flourish Award for Excellence in Printmaking brought together a diverse range of printmaking by selected artists from across the UK, presented in venues in the north of England in 2022.

The shortlisted artists for Flourish Award 2022:

The exhibition showcased a diverse range of printmaking techniques and themes with a rich mix of abstract and figurative work exploring local and global issues. There were intriguing visual narratives around urban and natural landscape in a time of climate change; personal stories and emotional journeys; migration and memory; flights of imagination and even astrophysics.

Judges:

Grant Scanlan, Mohammad Barrangi and Yasmin Cavin

Winners:

lidija antanasijević – Winner of Flourish Award 2022

Stephen Fowler – Winner of the Hawthorn Printmaker Prize

Liz Wilson – Winner of the Golsoncott Printmaker Prize

The Flourish Award celebrates excellence in printmaking through a curated exhibition of around 12-15 artists shortlisted from open submission. We are looking for creativity, skill, originality and innovation in traditional handmade print: from relief print and intaglio to screenprint, lithography and more. The winner of the Award goes on to present their own solo print exhibition in Huddersfield. They will also benefit from a 2-week period of access to the facilities at WYPW. In addition, there are runners-up prizes, including our student/recent graduate award.

Flourish Award 2022 prizes sponsers: