2012 GLOVER PRIZE

2012 ENTRY FORM

The winner will receive $35,000 plus a bronze maquette of John Glover by Peter Corlett valued at $5,000. All other exhibited entries will be eligible for the People’s Choice Award of $3000. The exhibition of finalists’ paintings will be held at the Falls Park Pavilion in Evandale, Tasmania. The winner of the Glover Prize will be announced at the official opening on Friday 9 March 2012. The People’s Choice Award will be announced on the afternoon of Tuesday 13 March. The exhibition is showing from Saturday 10 to Tuesday 13 March. Entries close on 5pm Friday 20 January 2012.

2012 GLOVER PRIZE JUDGES

Doug Hall AM is a long time advocate for contemporary art especially in Australia and Asia.

Jan Senbergs is a Latvian born artist living in Melbourne. His work is represented at the National Gallery of Australia and in all state galleries in Australia. Internationally his work is included in the collections of the National Gallery, Washington D.C; Wadsworth-Atheneum, Hartford, Connecticut; Museum of Modern Art, New York; and the Musuem of Fine Arts, Houston, Texas among others.

Dr Brigita Ozolins is an artist and an academic who lives and works in Hobart. She is currently a lecturer at the Tasmanian School of Art, University of Tasmania, where she has been teaching since 2000. Her commissions include a large scale project at MONA.

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THE GLOVER PRIZE The prestigious Glover Prize is the richest landscape prize in Australia. It is awarded each year for the best new (previously unexhibited and less than a year old) painting depicting the Tasmanian landscape. The winner receives $35,000 and a maquette of John Glover. The prize is dedicated to artist John Glover (1767-1849) because he is regarded as the father of Australian landscape. He was the most important 19th century landscape painter to work in Australia and lived the last 19 years of his life in Tasmania, not far from Launceston, near Evandale, the location of the annual Glover Prize. The prize is acquisitive, the winning work is exhibited in Tasmanian public venues and then will be placed permanently on show in the Glover Gallery in Evandale due for completion in 2010. A $3000 people’s choice prize is also voted on by the public from the exhibited entries. The Glover Prize winner is selected from around 40 finalist works chosen by the jury for showing at the Glover Prize exhibition. The event, which has become a must- see, is held in the historic Falls Park pavilion in Evandale over the March long week-end. The winner is announced on the Friday evening at the opening of the show. “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. Rose Falkiner, Chair of the John Glover Society with Leo Schofield, the master of ceremonies, at the 2006 exhibition opening. The Glover itself wins an award The Australia Business Arts Foundation (AbaF) 2010 national awards have been announced, they reward business and the arts using best practice to achieve strategic partnerships that benefit the companies, arts organizations and the wider community. The John Glover society, organizers of The Glover Prize and the Federal Group Tasmania, the Glover’s principal sponsor share the top honours in the Qantas Link Regional Award. Receiving the award:(L-R): Julia Farrell, executive director, The Federal Group; Narendra Kumar, executive manager, QantasLink; and Rose Falkiner, chair, The John Glover Society.