Muswellbrook Regional Arts Centre

2026 Muswellbrook Art Prize

Endure (Bridge at Ellerslie)

Amanda Western

Endure (Bridge at Ellerslie), 2025 linocut print 103 x 140 cm

'Endure' is a linocut made through sustained physical carving. I work with line and void, black or white, mark or absence, allowing pressure, resistance and repetition to shape the image. The work holds tension between fragility and persistence. Form is built through accumulated cuts, where rhythm and density replace description, and endurance is registered as a physical record of time, labour and restraint.