Glover Prize

{{Short description|Landscape art prize}} {{Use dmy dates|date=September 2020}} {{Use Australian English|date=May 2012}} {{Infobox award | name = Glover Prize | awarded_for = "The work judged the best contemporary painting of the Tasmanian landscape" | presenter = John Glover Society | country = Tasmania, Australia | year = 2004 | holder = Aisha Sherman-Noth, 2025 | website = http://www.johnglover.com.au }} The '''Glover Prize''' is an Australian annual art prize awarded for paintings of the landscape of Tasmania<ref name="ABC News - 10Mar2006 - Tasmanian wins Glover landscape prize">{{cite news|url=http://www.abc.net.au/news/2006-03-10/tasmanian-wins-glover-landscape-prize/815766|title=Tasmanian wins Glover landscape prize|date=10 March 2006|work=ABC News|publisher=Australian Broadcasting Corporation|access-date=12 March 2012}}</ref> The prize was inaugurated in 2004 by the John Glover Society, based in Evandale, Tasmania, in honour of the work of British-born landscape painter John Glover, who lived and painted in the area from 1832 until his death in 1849.<ref name="ABC News - 10Mar2006 - Tasmanian wins Glover landscape prize"/><ref name="John Glover Society - undated - The John Glover Society">{{cite web|url=http://www.johnglover.com.au/society.html|title=The John Glover Society|publisher=John Glover Society|access-date=12 March 2012|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120314061930/http://www.johnglover.com.au/society.html|archive-date=14 March 2012|url-status=dead}}</ref> The current prize amount of A$ 50,000 is the highest for landscape painting in Australia.<ref name="ABC Local Radio - 22Sep2011 - The path of a Glover Art Prize winner">{{cite web|url=http://www.abc.net.au/local/audio/2011/09/22/3323295.htm|title=The path of a Glover Art Prize winner|last=Walker|first=Tim|date=22 September 2011|work=ABC Local Radio|publisher=Australian Broadcasting Corporation|access-date=12 March 2012}}</ref><ref name="ABC News - 09Mar2012 - Martin Bryant painting wins Glover prize">{{cite news|url=http://www.abc.net.au/news/2012-03-09/martin-bryant-painting-wins-glover-prize/3880524|title=Martin Bryant painting wins Glover prize|date=9 March 2012|work=ABC News|publisher=Australian Broadcasting Corporation|access-date=12 March 2012}}</ref><ref name=ABCNewsCovers2011>{{citation |url=http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2011/03/10/3160223.htm |archive-url=https://archive.today/20121231081604/http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2011/03/10/3160223.htm |url-status=dead |archive-date=31 December 2012 |title= Covers coming off Glover art prize |date=10 March 2011 |work=ABC News|publisher=Australian Broadcasting Corporation}}</ref> The 2012 award was controversial: the winning picture included a depiction of convicted Port Arthur massacre spree killer Martin Bryant in the landscape of Port Arthur.<ref name="ABC News - 09Mar2012 - Martin Bryant painting wins Glover prize"/>

==History== {{Main|John Glover (artist)}} John Glover lived the last 17 years of his life in northern Tasmania. In 2001, "Mount Wellington and Hobart Town with Natives Dancing and Bathing", one of his many landscape works that were sent back to England, was sold for more than $1.5 million.{{Clarify|In what currency?|date=March 2012}}<ref name="ABC News - 04Mar2010 - Record entries for Glover Prize">{{cite news|url=http://www.abc.net.au/news/2010-03-03/record-entries-for-glover-prize/349370|title=Record entries for Glover Prize|last=Perry |first=Bronwyn|date=4 March 2010|work=ABC News|publisher=Australian Broadcasting Corporation|access-date=21 March 2012}}</ref> The Glover Prize has been described as "a little heart beat, a funny little committee that had a little bit of money and had an idea".<ref name="ABC News - 04Mar2010 - Record entries for Glover Prize"/> By 2019, the prize had attracted 480 entrants.<ref name = "Glover Prize 2019 breaks entry records"/>

==Conditions for the prize== The John Glover Society has specified that the prize is limited to works depicting Tasmanian landscapes.<ref name="ABC News - 10Mar2006 - Tasmanian wins Glover landscape prize"/><ref name="John Glover Society - undated - The John Glover Society"/>

==Winners==

===2004=== The winner of the inaugural Prize was Longford based artist Michael McWilliams, for the painting ''Bandicoot on a Log''<ref name="The Examiner - 10Jan2012 - Longford artist in brush with the past">{{cite news|url=http://www.examiner.com.au/news/local/news/general/longford-artist-in-brush-with-the-past/2414490.aspx|title=Longford artist in brush with the past|last=Kearney|first=Annie|date=10 January 2012|work=The Examiner|publisher=Fairfax Media|access-date=12 March 2012}}</ref> Bandicoots are small to medium-sized terrestrial marsupials endemic to Australia. The painting now hangs in the departure lounge of Launceston Airport.<ref name="The Examiner - 10Jan2012 - Longford artist in brush with the past"/><ref name="John Glover Society - undated - former winners"/> His acrylics on linen work ''Bush Blankets'' was awarded the $3 000 "People's Choice" 2012 award.<ref name="The Examiner - 14Mar2012 - More popular, less controversial art winner">{{cite news|url=http://www.examiner.com.au/news/local/news/general/more-popular-less-controversial-art-winner/2487126.aspx|title=More popular, less controversial art winner|last=Machen|first=Mary|date=14 March 2012|work=The Examiner|publisher=Fairfax Media|access-date=20 March 2012}}</ref>

===2005=== In the second year of the contest, there were more than 130 entries. The winner was Stephen Charles Lees for the painting ''Wishbone Ridge''. Lees, who was born in Sydney, had lived in Tasmanian since 1992.<ref name="John Glover Society - undated - former winners">{{cite web|url=http://www.johnglover.com.au/former_winners.html|title=Glover Prize - former winners|work=John Glover Society|access-date=20 March 2012|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120320081232/http://www.johnglover.com.au/former_winners.html|archive-date=20 March 2012|url-status=dead}}</ref><ref>{{citation |url=http://www.abc.net.au/news/2005-03-12/southern-tas-painter-wins-art-honours/2578822 |title=Southern Tas painter wins art honours |date=12 March 2005 |work=ABC News}}</ref><ref>{{citation |url=http://tasmanianlife.com.au/stephen-lees/ |title=Stephen Lees |work=Tasmanian Life |access-date=10 April 2012}}</ref>

===2006=== Hobart artist David Keeling was awarded the third Glover Prize for ''45 Minute Walk - Narawntapu''. The winning work was of orthodox oils on canvas medium.<ref name="ABC News - 10Mar2006 - Tasmanian wins Glover landscape prize"/> The landscape depicted is part of the Narawntapu National Park<ref name="ABC News - 10Mar2006 - Tasmanian wins Glover landscape prize"/><ref name="John Glover Society - undated - former winners"/>

===2007=== The winner of the Prize in 2007 was Raymond Arnold, a Queenstown-based printmaker.<ref name="The Advocate - 10Mar2007 - Glover prize to best in West">{{cite news|url=http://www.theadvocate.com.au/news/local/news/general/glover-prize-to-best-in-west/288303.aspx|title=Glover prize to best in West|date=10 March 2007|work=The Advocate|publisher=Fairfax Media|access-date=12 March 2012}}</ref> The painting in acrylics, entitled ''Western Mountain Ecology'', depicts stacks of freshly-sawn Huon pine. The prize amount was then $30 000.<ref name="John Glover Society - undated - former winners"/><ref name="The Advocate - 10Mar2007 - Glover prize to best in West"/>

===2008=== Hobart Art teacher Neil Haddon was awarded the 2008 Glover Prize for his work ''Purblind (opiate)''<ref name="ABC News - 079Mar2008 - Hobart teacher wins prestigious art prize">{{cite news|url=http://www.abc.net.au/news/2008-03-07/hobart-teacher-wins-prestigious-art-prize/1065764|title=Hobart teacher wins prestigious art prize|date=7 March 2008|work=ABC News|publisher=Australian Broadcasting Corporation|access-date=12 March 2012}}</ref> The work is enamels on aluminium, and references the cultivation of opium poppies in Tasmanian opium poppy farming industry.<ref name="John Glover Society - undated - former winners"/><ref name="ABC News - 079Mar2008 - Hobart teacher wins prestigious art prize"/>

===2009=== Hobart-based artist Matthew Armstrong was awarded the 2009 Prize for the work ''Transformed at Night'' ahead of more than 250 other entrants. Armstrong's work depicted Mellifont Street, Hobart.<ref name="ABC News - 07Mar2009 - Reluctant entrant wins Tas art prize">{{cite news|url=http://www.abc.net.au/news/2009-03-07/reluctant-entrant-wins-tas-art-prize/1611718|title=Reluctant entrant wins Tas art prize|date=7 March 2009|work=ABC News|publisher=Australian Broadcasting Corporation|access-date=25 March 2012}}</ref>

===2010=== Queensland-based artist Ian Waldron was selected from among 272 entries to become the first Indigenous Australian to win the Prize with his work ''Walach Dhaarr (Cockle Creek)'', a piece created on Tasmanian oak.<ref name="ABC News - 05Mar2010 - Queensland landscape artist wins Glover Prize">{{cite news|url=http://www.abc.net.au/news/2010-03-05/queensland-landscape-artist-wins-glover-prize/352246|title=Queensland landscape artist wins Glover Prize|date=5 March 2010|work=ABC News|publisher=Australian Broadcasting Corporation|access-date=12 March 2012}}</ref><ref name="Lateline - 05Mar2010 - Indigenous man takes out Glover Prize">{{cite news|url=http://www.abc.net.au/lateline/content/2010/s2838284.htm|title=Indigenous man takes out Glover Prize|last=Perry|first=Bronwyn|date=5 March 2010|work=Lateline|publisher=Australian Broadcasting Corporation|access-date=12 March 2012}}</ref> "Walach Dhaarr" in the language of the Aboriginal Tasmanians of that region means "Cockle Creek",<ref name="The Australian - 08Mar2010 - History resonates in winning island landscape ">{{cite news|url=http://www.theaustralian.com.au/news/arts/history-resonates-in-winning-island-landscape/story-e6frg8n6-1225837946830|title=History resonates in winning island landscape |last=Boland|first=Michaela|date=8 March 2010|work=The Australian|publisher=News Limited|access-date=13 March 2012}}</ref> a location in Tasmania that Waldron described as significant, both archaeologically and as a "site of positive exchange" between indigenous people and French mariners during the late 18th century.<ref name="ABC News - 05Mar2010 - Queensland landscape artist wins Glover Prize"/>

===2011=== The 2011 prize was awarded to Launceston artist Josh Foley for ''Gee’s Lookout''.<ref name="ABC Local Radio - 22Sep2011 - The path of a Glover Art Prize winner"/><ref name="The Mercury - 12Mar2011 -Wild take grabs Glover Prize">{{cite news|url=http://www.themercury.com.au/article/2011/03/12/213991_tasmania-news.html|title=Wild take grabs Glover Prize|last=Richards|first=Blair|date=12 March 2011|work=The Mercury|publisher=News Limited|access-date=27 March 2012}}</ref> The oil painting included pumice in its media.<ref name="The Mercury - 12Mar2011 -Wild take grabs Glover Prize"/> The painting depicts a disused building on the hill overlooking Cataract Gorge in Launceston.<ref name="University of Tasmania - May 2011 - Glover win for UTAS landscape artist">{{cite web|url=http://www.media.utas.edu.au/__data/assets/pdf_file/0008/126980/Unitas_349.pdf|title=Glover win for UTAS landscape artist|last=Scott|first=Luke|date=May 2011|work=UniTas|publisher=University of Tasmania|access-date=27 March 2012|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190415233916/http://www.media.utas.edu.au/__data/assets/pdf_file/0008/126980/Unitas_349.pdf|archive-date=15 April 2019|url-status=dead}}</ref>

===2012=== The 2012 winner was awarded to Launceston born Sydney resident artist Rodney Pople for the work ''Port Arthur''.<ref name="SMH - 10Mar2012 - Martin Bryant painting causes controversy ">{{cite news|url=http://www.smh.com.au/entertainment/art-and-design/martin-bryant-painting-causes-controversy-20120310-1uqvi.html|title=Martin Bryant painting causes controversy |date=10 March 2012|work=The Sydney Morning Herald|publisher=Fairfax Media|access-date=2 April 2012}}</ref>

===2013=== The 2013 competition attracted 303 entrants; the prize was awarded to Sydney artist Janet Laurence for a work titled ''Plants Eye View'', and depicted a close-up view of flora from the Tarkine region of North-West Tasmania.<ref name="ABC News - 9 March 2013 - Tarkine picture takes landscape prize">{{cite news|url=http://www.abc.net.au/news/2013-03-08/glover-prize-2013/4562076|title=Tarkine picture takes landscape prize|date=9 March 2013|work=ABC News (Australia)|publisher=Australian Broadcasting Corporation|access-date=23 March 2014}}</ref>

===2014=== The 2014 prize had 42 finalists.<ref name="ABC News - 7 March 2014 - Highlands painting claims rich Glover art prize">{{cite news|url=http://www.abc.net.au/news/2014-03-07/highlands-painting-claims-rich-glover-art-prize/5307326|title=Highlands painting claims rich Glover art prize|last=Bryan|first=Emily|date=7 March 2014|work=ABC News (Australia)|publisher=Australian Broadcasting Corporation|access-date=6 July 2014}}</ref> The winning work was ''Looking south from the Labyrinth (to Mt Olympus & Lake St Clair)'' by New Norfolk born artist Mark Rodda.<ref name="John Glover Society - Mark Rodda - Looking South from the Labyrinth (to Mt Olympus & Lake St Clair), 2014">{{cite web|url=http://www.johnglover.com.au/works/looking-south-from-the-labyrinth-to-mt-olympus-lake-st-clair|title=Mark Rodda - Looking South from the Labyrinth (to Mt Olympus & Lake St Clair), 2014|publisher=John Glover Society|access-date=6 July 2014}}</ref>

===2015=== The winner of the 2015 prize was Nigel Hewitt for his work ''Woven'', created using wood ash from the 2013 Dunalley bushfires.<ref name="ABC News - 6 March 2015 - Glover prize: Winning landscape by Nigel Hewitt uses ash from Dunalley bushfire">{{cite news|url=http://www.abc.net.au/news/2015-03-06/glover-prize-winning-landscape-uses-ash-from-dunalley-bushfire/6287160|title=Glover prize: Winning landscape by Nigel Hewitt uses ash from Dunalley bushfire|date=6 March 2015|work=ABC News (Australia)|publisher=Australian Broadcasting Corporation|access-date=12 March 2015}}</ref> The work, chosen from 282 entries and 42 finalists, features a forest at Mt Barrow in northern Tasmania. Hewitt divides his time between Perth, Western Australia and Hobart, Tasmania.<ref name="John Glover Society - Nigel Hewitt - Woven, 2015">{{cite web|url=http://www.johnglover.com.au/artists/nigel-hewitt|title=Nigel Hewitt - Woven, 2015|publisher=John Glover Society|access-date=12 March 2015}}</ref>

=== 2016 === In 2016 the prize attracted more than 280 entries and was won by David Keeling, making him the first artist to win the prize twice; he also won the prize in 2006.<ref>{{Cite news|url=http://www.abc.net.au/news/2016-03-11/david-keeling-claims-second-coveted-glover-prize/7240570|title=David Keeling claims second coveted Glover Prize|date=2016-03-11|newspaper=ABC News|language=en-AU|access-date=2016-12-12}}</ref> Keeling's painting titled, ''Low tide, soft breeze,'' depicted a coastal track in the Narawntapu National Park, an area that he often uses as a source of inspiration.<ref>{{Cite news|url=http://www.theadvocate.com.au/story/3786883/second-glover-prize-for-hobarts-keeling/|title=Second Glover Prize for Hobart's Keeling|last=Media|first=Australian Community Media - Fairfax|date=2016-03-12|newspaper=The Advocate|access-date=2016-12-12}}</ref>

=== 2017 === 2017 saw the Glover Prize awarded to Raymond Arnold, making him a two-time winner of the award, having achieved this also in 2007. Arnold's work was titled ''La Barque de Dante/Macquarie Harbour Party Barge.''<ref>{{Cite news|url=http://www.abc.net.au/news/2017-03-10/raymond-arnold-win-glover-prize-2017/8343658|title=Tasmanian Raymond Arnold takes the Glover prize for second time|date=2017-03-10|work=ABC News|access-date=2017-12-20|language=en-AU}}</ref>

===2018=== The 2018 Glover Prize was awarded to Halinka Orszulok for the work ''Ponies'', a painting of playground equipment at Cataract Gorge, Launceston at night.<ref name="ABC News - 9 March 2018 - Print Email Facebook Twitter More Glover Prize 2018: First-timer Halinka Orszulok bags iconic landscape art award">{{cite news|url=http://www.abc.net.au/news/2018-03-09/glover-prize-winner-2018-halinka-orszulok/9533880|title=Print Email Facebook Twitter More Glover Prize 2018: First-timer Halinka Orszulok bags iconic landscape art award|last=Bevin|first=Edith|date=9 March 2018|work=ABC News (Australia)|publisher=Australian Broadcasting Corporation|access-date=20 September 2018}}</ref> Orszulok's work ''Wreck'' was one of the 35 finalists in the 2014 Sir John Sulman Prize.<ref name="Art Gallery of New South Wales - Sir John Sulman Prize 2014 - Halinka Orszulok: Wreck">{{cite web|url=https://www.artgallery.nsw.gov.au/prizes/sulman/2014/29585/|title=Sir John Sulman Prize 2014 - Halinka Orszulok: Wreck|work=Art Gallery of New South Wales|publisher=Government of New South Wales|access-date=20 September 2018}}</ref>

===2019=== After a record-breaking year with over 480 paintings entered,<ref name = "Glover Prize 2019 breaks entry records">{{cite news|url=https://www.examiner.com.au/story/5880170/glover-prize-records-broken-entries-soar/|title=Glover Prize 2019 breaks entry records|last=Jordan|first=Tarlia|date=1 February 2019|work=The Examiner (Tasmania)|publisher=Fairfax Media|access-date = 3 May 2019}}</ref> the 2019 Glover Prize was awarded to Piers Greville for the work ''Pedder Prime Cuts'', an oil and acrylic painting of Lake Pedder, a Tasmanian glacial lake.<ref name = "See Piers Greville's Glover Prize 2019 prize-winning painting">{{cite news|url=https://www.examiner.com.au/story/5945068/see-the-2019-winning-glover-prize-painting-of-lake-pedder/|title=See Piers Greville's Glover Prize 2019 prize-winning painting|last=Vinall|first=Frances|date=8 March 2019|work=The Examiner (Tasmania)|publisher=Fairfax Media|access-date = 3 May 2019}}</ref>

===2020=== The 2020 Glover Prize was awarded to Tasmanian artist Robert O'Connor, for his piece titled: 'Somewhere in the midlands'.<ref name="Glover Prize 2020 winner">{{cite news |last1=Vinall |first1=Frances |title=Robert O'Connor's painting of ham wins $50,000 Glover Prize |url=https://www.examiner.com.au/story/6666761/i-was-trying-to-take-the-piss-says-50000-glover-prize-winner/ |access-date=11 March 2020 |publisher=Fairfax Media}}</ref> O'Connor's painting depicted a large hunk of meat sitting on a bed of mashed potatoes with peas and gravy, shown in front of a Tasmanian landscape. O'Connor had been a finalist in the Glover Prize four times prior to 2020.<ref name="Robert O'Connor 2020">{{cite news |last1=McLennan |first1=April |title=Glover Art Prize winner Robert O'Connor divides opinion with meaty landscape |url=https://www.abc.net.au/news/2020-03-07/glover-art-prize-won-by-meat-and-vegetable-landscape/12035922 |access-date=11 March 2020 |publisher=Fairfax Media}}</ref> ===2021=== The 2021 Glover Prize was won by Hobart artist Sebastian Galloway for a work titled ''View of Mt. Lyell through an Acid Raindrop''.<ref name="The Examiner - 5 March 2021 - Glover Prize 2021: Tasmania's Sebastian Galloway wins coveted award">{{cite news |last1=Anderson |first1=Dana |title=Glover Prize 2021: Tasmania's Sebastian Galloway wins coveted award |url=https://www.examiner.com.au/story/7155114/tasmanian-takes-home-coveted-2021-glover-prize/ |access-date=6 March 2021 |work=The Examiner (Tasmania) |date=5 March 2021}}</ref> The work is oil paint on copper; the artist stated that the copper medium reflected the mining history of Queenstown.<ref name="The Examiner - 5 March 2021 - Glover Prize 2021: Tasmania's Sebastian Galloway wins coveted award"/>

===2022=== The 2022 Glover Prize was won by Victorian artist Jennifer Riddle with her work titled ''Wanderings of the Past and Now''. The work is a synthetic polymer on canvas, and depicts Port Davey, in Tasmania.<ref>{{Cite news |last=McLennan |first=April |date=11 March 2022 |title=Glover Art Prize 2022 winner is Tasmanian Jennifer Riddle with a tribute to her sister, Wanderings of the Past and Now |work=ABC |url=https://www.abc.net.au/news/2022-03-11/glover-art-prize-winner-2022-jennifer-riddle/100904168 |access-date=12 March 2022}}</ref>

=== 2023 === Joanna Chew for ''Tender,'' an oil on linen that references two works by John Glover in amongst tents and caravans set up at the Hobart Showgrounds to deal with the lack of housing in the city. <ref>{{Cite web |title=Tender John Glover Art Prize |url=https://www.johnglover.com.au/product/tender/ |access-date=2024-09-10 |website=John Glover Prize |language=en-AU}}</ref>

=== 2024 === Nicholas Blowers for ''Lake Bed'', inspired by the landscape of Lake Gordon when the water level dropped to reveal a drowned forest.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Lake Bed John Glover Art Prize |url=https://www.johnglover.com.au/product/lake-bed/ |access-date=2024-09-10 |website=John Glover Prize |language=en-AU}}</ref>

=== 2025 === Aisha Sherman-Noth for ''Weeping birches on the avenue''. Inspired by the artists observations of poplar trees. and weeping birches outside their window.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Weeping birches on the avenue John Glover Art Prize |url=https://www.johnglover.com.au/product/weeping-birches-on-the-avenue/ |access-date=2025-12-13 |website=John Glover Prize |language=en-AU}}</ref>

==2012 award controversy== The 2012 award-winning painting depicted Port Arthur and included a representation of Martin Bryant holding a gun.<ref name="The Mercury - 10Mar2012 - Bryant painting prize outrage">{{cite news|url=http://www.themercury.com.au/article/2012/03/10/308211_todays-news.html|title=Bryant painting prize outrage|last=Clark|first=Nick|date=10 March 2012|work=The Mercury|publisher=News Limited|access-date=12 March 2012}}</ref> The award received criticism. A former police officer who attended the scene of the Port Arthur Massacre described the work as insensitive and outrageous.<ref name="SMH - 10Mar2012 - Martin Bryant painting causes controversy "/> The CEO of the Port Arthur Historic Site Management Authority was reported as stating that depictions of the massacre were unhelpful to those it affected.<ref name="The Mercury - 10Mar2012 - Bryant painting prize outrage"/> Pople addressed the criticism, arguing that the depiction of Byant was a reminder of the brutality of the Port Arthur Prison Colony within a green "surreal beauty" landscape.<ref name="The Mercury - 10Mar2012 - Bryant painting prize outrage"/>

==References== {{reflist}}

==External links== * {{Official website|http://www.johnglover.com.au}} * [http://www.abc.net.au/news/2012-03-09/artist-rodney-pople-with-glover-prize-winnerjpg/3880238 Image of Rodney Pople in front of controversial 2012 prize-winning painting] from Australian Broadcasting Corporation website * [http://www.abc.net.au/news/2015-03-06/glover-2015-prize-winner-nigel-hewitt-with-winning-landscapejpg/6287182 Nigel Hewitt with his 2015 prize-winning image, ''Woven''] from Australian Broadcasting Corporation website

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