Dianne Fogwell
Dianne Fogwell is one of Australia's most distinguished printmakers, artist-book practitioners, and master printers. Nationally and internationally recognised for her innovative practice, she has spent more than four decades advancing the fields of printmaking and artist books as an artist, educator, curator, and publisher.
Born in Lismore, New South Wales, in 1958, Fogwell is the founding director of several influential print studios, including Studio One, Criterion Fine Art Press and Gallery, ANU Edition + Artist Book Studio, and Lewis Editions. Her practice encompasses printmaking, sculpture, and large-scale artist books, exploring themes of landscape, ecology, memory, and the relationship between humanity and the natural world.
Fogwell has exhibited extensively throughout Australia and internationally since 1981. Her work has been presented in major solo and group exhibitions and selected for international biennials dedicated to printmaking and artist books in Poland, Belgium, Serbia, the United Kingdom, France, China, and Portugal. She has also been a finalist in many of Australia's most significant print and works-on-paper awards, including the National Works on Paper, Burnie Print Prize, Silk Cut Award, Swan Hill Print and Painting Prize, and the Portia Geach Memorial Award.
Her work has received widespread critical acclaim and numerous prestigious awards. Recent honours include the 2021 CityNews ACT Arts Award for Artist of the Year, the 2021 Geelong Print Prize, the inaugural WAMA Art Prize Award of Excellence, the 2020 Libris Award, the inaugural 2019 Megalo International Print Prize, the Canberra Critics Circle Visual Arts Award, a special prize at the 2019 Ulsan International Woodcut Print Biennale, the 2017 Geelong Print Prize, the 2017 Banyule Award for Works on Paper, and the Grand Prix in Ukraine for her artist book Emu.
Fogwell's work is represented in significant public, university, and private collections in Australia and overseas. In 2025, the National Gallery of Australia acquired three of her large artist books, while Geelong Gallery acquired her landmark 42-metre work Prescience in 2022, comprising 56 hand-printed panels. Her work is also held by the China Printmaking Museum, Guanlan, Shenzhen, alongside numerous regional galleries, public libraries, universities, and corporate collections.
A respected educator and mentor, Fogwell lectured at the Australian National University School of Art from 1981 to 2006. She taught in the Graphic Investigation Workshop before leading the Edition + Artist Book Studio, where she helped shape a generation of Australian printmakers and artist-book practitioners. She has delivered lectures and masterclasses internationally in Greece, New Zealand, Morocco, South Korea, and Japan, and has curated and co-curated major touring exhibitions of artist books.
Her expertise is recognised internationally through invitations to judge and serve on juries for major print awards and biennials, including the Burnie Print Prize, the Bharat Bhavan International Biennial of Print in India, and the New Zealand Print and Painting Award.
In 2018, Fogwell published A Printmaker's Cookbook – Images in Relief, a comprehensive 192-page volume drawing on forty years of experience as an artist, master printer, educator, and publisher. Widely regarded as one of Australia's leading voices in contemporary printmaking, Dianne Fogwell continues to expand the possibilities of print and artist books through a practice that combines technical mastery with conceptual ambition.
