Flourish Award - West Yorkshire Print Workshop

Abstract arrangement ofwooden building blocks wrapped in screenprinted artwork.

Selected from open submission, the 14th Flourish Award for Excellence in Printmaking brings together a diverse range of printmaking by selected artists from across the UK, presented in venues in the north of England in 2025/26, starting in Huddersfield.

This years shortlisted artists:

Inga Eicaite, Anupa Gardner, Layla Jabbari, Emma Jackson, Nobuo Okawa, Clare Phelan, Janet Sang, Euan G Stewart, Tilda Tribbeck, Ruth Uglow, Sylvia Waltering, Richard William Wheater, Sue Wyllie, Qinlin Yang

This years Judges:

Yasmin Canvin – Exhibitions Curator & Arts Director

Grant Scanlan – Art Curator & Judge

Lucy May Schofield – Award-Winning Printmaker & Artist

Find out more about the judges by clicking on the tab above.

Winners:

Emma Jackson – Flourish Award For Excelence in Printmaking 2025

Ruth Uglow – Hawthorn Printmaker’s Award

Sue Wyllie – Intaglio Printmaker’s Award

Tilda Tribbeck – Student/Graduate Primaker Award

Who Are the Judges for Flourish 2025?

This year’s panel brings together leading printmakers, curators, and arts professionals, each offering unique expertise and insight into contemporary printmaking.

Yasmin Canvin – Exhibitions Curator & Arts Director

With a diverse heritage of Pakistani, German, and British backgrounds, Yasmin Canvin is dedicated to creating meaningful connections between artists and audiences. She presents work from different cultural and international perspectives, often exploring social and environmental issues through cross-disciplinary practice.

Currently the Exhibitions Curator at the Herbert Museum & Art Gallery, Yasmin has curated exhibitions at prestigious venues including Angel Row Gallery, Nottingham Castle Museum & Art Gallery, the Sainsbury Centre for Visual Art, and Dundee Museum & Art Gallery. She has also led a professional development programme for culturally diverse curators and served as Director of Fermynwoods Contemporary Art and Leicester Print Workshop.

Grant Scanlan – Art Curator & Judge

Originally from the Lake District, Grant Scanlan studied the history and theory of art and design before embarking on a career as a curator. Since the mid-1990s, he has worked in museums and galleries across London, the East Midlands, and Yorkshire.

Since 2011, Grant has managed and programmed Huddersfield Art Gallery, which is undergoing major redevelopment as part of Kirklees Council’s Our Cultural Heart regeneration scheme. He has extensive judging experience, serving as a panellist for the Contemporary British Painting Prize since 2017, the New Light Prize, and as a regular judge for the Flourish Award for printmaking.

Photographed by Ben Shakespeare

Lucy May Schofield – Award-Winning Printmaker & Artist

Lucy May Schofield is a Lincolnshire-born artist who now works within the vast landscapes of rural Northumberland. A graduate of the London College of Printing, she later trained in water-based woodcut (Mokuhanga) and book arts at MI-LAB in Japan. She is an elected Associate Member of the Royal Society of Painter Printmakers.

Lucy has exhibited internationally, with shows at Kentler International Drawing Space (Brooklyn, New York), 3331 Arts Chiyoda (Tokyo), and the RWA (Bristol). Her work is held in major collections such as Tate Britain, The Ashmolean Museum, and the Yale Centre for British Art.

Notably, she was the winner of the Flourish Award in 2020 and recently received a fellowship at the Scuola Internazionale di Grafica in Venice. She is also a founding member of the Mokuhanga Sisters collective, an international artist group curating and exhibiting globally. Her practice explores a deep connection to nature, time, and materiality, reflecting on human impermanence through print and paper-based performance.

Find out more about our artists

Click on a artist to read their profile and view their selected work.

Inga Eicaite

Emma Jackson

Winner of Flourish Award For Excellence in Printmaking 2025

Combined etchingand screenprint, abstract impression of a fishing boat at sea, building and binoculars left on a post.

Janet Sang

Monochrome abstract monoprint of splintering lines representing a rythmic network of systems.

Ruth Uglow

Winner of Hawthorn Printmaker’s Award

Monochrome woodcut print of plant on rice paper

Sue Wyllie

Intaglio Printmaker’s Award Winner

Anupa Gardner

Nobuo Okawa

Euan G Stewart

Woodblock print on handmade paper, a study of a Shirahama pine in CMYK.

Sylvia Waltering

Artists impression of Tottenham Court Road, figures walking in the rain with umbrellas and rain coats, Black Mezzotint print on paper.

Qinlin Yang

Layla Jabbari

Clare Phelan

Monochrome photopolymer etching of a hut at a disused stone quay.

Tilda Tribbeck

Winner of Student/Graduate Primaker Award

Framed, hanging Green silkscreen print, abstract marks, influenced by industrial and natural landscape.

Richard William Wheater

What is Flourish?

The Flourish Award for Excellence in Printmaking has been running for 14 years, celebrating the creativity, skill, and innovation of UK-based printmakers. The competition is open to artists working in traditional handmade printmaking techniques such as relief print, intaglio, screen print, lithography, and more.

The competition is open to established, emerging, and student artists/printmakers, with shortlisting and prizes awarded by an independent panel of judges.

Artists can submit up to 3 individual pieces for consideration and have the chance to be part of an increasingly recognised Award and national exhibition, which provides a significant development opportunity for the winner and exposure.

Bring together a diverse range of printmaking by selected artists from across the UK in a curated exhibition of around 12 shortlisted artists selected from open submissions.

The winner of the Award will go on to present a solo print exhibition with us at our Huddersfield gallery space.

They will also benefit from 2 weeks of access to the facilities at WYPW. In addition, runners-up prizes and our student/recent graduate award.

All works submitted for the Flourish Award will be reviewed by a selection panel of independent judges.

Each year, there is a different panel of printmakers, curators, and arts professionals.

Works will be judged on creativity, originality, use of materials, technical ability, and overall impact.

The first round of judging takes place online with the judges viewing submitted digital images and artist statements.

The second round will take place with the judges viewing the shortlisted works in person before selecting the eventual winners. The panel’s decision is ﬁnal.

Exhibition

An exhibition of all shortlisted artists’ work will open at West Yorkshire Print Workshop at the Piazza, Huddersfield in July and run until September 2025 before going on tour to a venue in North of England.

More information on tour venues and dates to be accounted soon.

Awards / Prizes

All shortlisted artists will have their work included in the Flourish Award for Excellence in Printmaking 2025 exhibition at West Yorkshire Print Workshop on the Piazza, Huddersfield.

The overall winner of the Award will have the opportunity to present a solo show of work at the West Yorkshire Print Workshop on the Piazza, Huddersfield. Plus, a 2-week residency/use of the facilities at WYPW.

The winner of the recent graduate/student Award will win 1 free course at WYPW and 1-year student membership at WYPW.

Plus sponsored prizes

Further Information and FAQs

Please see the FAQs for more details and please feel free to get in touch if you have any questions at info@wypw.org

Shortlisted artworks can be offered for sale during the exhibition. Commission on sales is 40%. Please indicate the retail (selling) price of your work or ‘NFS’ if not for sale.