Australia's Most Prestigious Landscape Art Prize in honour of John Glover (1767-1849).

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This year's Glover Landscape Art Prize show has been run and won. Over the next couple of days I'll show you a selection of works and the winner. It is held in Evandale's Falls Pavilion, which is not unlike an old shearing shed (as you can see from the rafters here). Here is the pavilion itself: www.flickr.com/photos/luminosity7/50099052366/in/album-72...

From the left here we have a work by last year's winner Sebastian Galloway (Tasmania). Galloway paints on copper and this one is called "Space Invader", where he documents the effects of exotic species on the landscape (in this case Foxglove).

Then we have Amanda Johnson's (Victoria) striking "Colonial heat: Infestation Recherche Bay".

Suzanne Roberts (Queensland) created some controversy with her little work "A chilly late afternoon at Bellerive Beach". It is not surprising for artists to use photographs to work from these days (I'll have something to say about the photography influence tomorrow), however given the inability to travel during the pandemic this year, non-Tasmanian artists had no choice. In this case a Tasmanian photogapher's work was used without permission.

The one on the right is by Tasmanian artist Peter Rudd entitled, "Barossa Reserve, Glenorchy", and features a tree and a raven in a suburban setting.

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It's always nice to observe social behaviour. And these days that almost invariably means catching people using their smart phones.

One of my photographs, “The Conversation of Art” from last year’s show, was used by the John Glover Society to promote this year’s event.
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The category winners have been announced.

The Glover Prize goes to Jennifer Riddle of Victoria for "Wanderings of the Past and Now". It features a scene from Port Davey in the remote south-west of Tasmania. I think you'll agree on its photogenic charms. A truly brilliant composition of line, shade, reflections and just enough colour. Like most of this year's entries (because interstate artists couldn't travel), it was based on a photograph.
Synthetic polymer on canvas.
186 x 186 cms

One of the Highly Commended works was by Tasmanian artist Stephen Lees, "Walking George". This colouful, almost abstract, work is inspired by walking his dog through a local landscape.
Oil panel.
137 x 122 cms

Another bit of controversy was created by the Packers' choice of Western Australian artist Cynthia Orr's "Our House". One rule of the Glover Prize is that it must feature a Tasmanian landscape (where Glover himself painted). Some critics have argued the features in this painting more closely resemble that of her home town of Albany (WA).
Acrylic and art pen on canvas.
48 x 48 cms

But what would an art show be without controversy?

Tomorrow I'll show you the "People's Choice" award winner. Photographers will be pleased.

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Notice the wagging finger.

It's always nice to watch people's reaction at art shows. Responses are subjective, but it is important to remember that every piece of art requires some interpretation - even if that is just a purely aesthetic reaction. The philosophical word for this is "hermeneutics" (derived from the name of the Greek god of messaging, Hermes), and whether we know what it means or not, each time we look at a work of art we practice it.

There is the intended meaning that the artist had for the work, and the received meaning, which is the way the viewer wants to see the work. Somewhere in the communication between those two hermeneutical poles lies the significance of the work.

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