Amanda Western- Award Winning Australian Printmaker
Amanda Western is a Ballarat-based Australian printmaker specialising in black-and-white linocut relief prints at ambitious scale. Her rigorously carved, crisply registered prints- mostly monochrome with rare, purposeful notes of colour- combine muscular linework, deep blacks and refined negative space.
Amanda is a finalist in the 2026 Glover Prize. In 2025 she won the People's Choice Award for the Pro Hart Outback Art Prize and her large-format works caught the eye of Australian judging panels, earning her a place in the top ten artists nationwide with finalist selections in the Sunshine Coast National Art Prize, St Colombus Art Prize , and MAC yapang Art Prize, alongside other accolades. Western’s practice centres craft excellence, material honesty and careful editioning, inviting slow looking and rewarding close attention to mark, edge and paper.
Serving on the Print Council of Australia’s Committee of Management, holding the position of President of the Ballarat Society of Artists, Amanda is also on the City of Melbourne's External Assessment Panel.
