THE GLOVER PRIZE

The prestigious Glover Prize is the richest annual prize for landscape painting in Australia. It is awarded for the work judged the best contemporary painting of the Tasmanian landscape. The winner receives $35,000 and a bronze maquette of colonial artist John Glover (1767-1849).

The prize is dedicated to Glover, regarded as the father of Australian landscape painting. Glover left England in 1830 after a very successful career as an artist and lived the last 18 years of his life in northern Tasmania, near Evandale, the location of the Glover Prize. He painted his best work in this strange new landscape, which Australian Impressionist, Tom Roberts, named 'Glover Country'.

The Glover Prize winner is selected from around 40 works chosen by a panel of eminent judges. The exhibition, which has become a must-see, is held in the historic Falls Park pavilion in Evandale over the March long weekend. The winner is announced on the Friday evening at the opening of the show.

LOOKING AT
LANDSCAPE

THROUGH THE LENS OF THE GLOVER PRIZE

This book looks at the different ways landscape can be expressed and understood, through the eyes of colonial artist John Glover (1767–1849) and artists who have entered the Glover Prize for landscape painting over the past eight years. What artists have chosen to depict in landscape painting has shifted over time. Today, the landscape category of art-making is not only about representing the natural world as we see it, but also about how we construct and understand the world we live in.

This is a book for lovers of art and those who are curious about art's more contemporary manifestations. The inclusion of activities also makes the publication a useful tool for teachers.

Cost: $29.95 inclusive of packaging and postage within Australia

To place an order, please send your email request to:
info@johnglover.com.au

“The organization and management of this
project (the Glover Prize) would shame many
professional metropolitan galleries.”

Leo Schofield OAM, in The Bulletin, 29 March, 2005.

Leo Schofield, the master of ceremonies, at the 2006 exhibition opening.

"This is a book that encourages pleasure, and
exercises the mind. It takes the anxiety out of
art appreciation." - Peter Timms, Writer, former art critic and author of the book “What's Wrong with Contemporary Art"