Celebrating the legacy of John Glover, The John Glover Art Prize in the historic village of Evandale offers one of the most significant art awards for contemporary landscape painting.
Tasmanian Craft Fair 2021
The Tasmanian Craft Fair is the largest working display of arts and crafts in Australia with more than 260 artists and artisans and 18,000 annual visitors.
Glover Prize 2020
Celebrating the legacy of John Glover, The John Glover Art Prize (Glover Prize) has become one of Australia’s most significant awards for landscape painting, open to artists from anywhere in the world. It is awarded annually by The John Glover Society Inc. for the work judged the best contemporary landscape painting of Tasmania. Landscape painting is defined in its broadest sense. … Read More
Tasmanian Craft Fair
Held annually in the picturesque township of Deloraine in northern Tasmania, an amazing array of talented artists and craftspeople exhibit and demonstrate their work as part of the Tasmanian Craft Fair. The Tasmanian Craft Fair is the largest display, sale and working demonstration of all types of crafts in the Southern Hemisphere, held annually over 4 days at the start … Read More
Glover Prize 2019
John Glover and Prize John Glover was a successful British painter and contemporary of Turner and John Constable. Glover painted in the picturesque style advocated by Claude Lorraine, taking the Grand Tour of Europe and wandering the moors and mountains of Britain in search of inspiration. Glover immigrated to Van Diemen’s Land (Tasmania) to join his children, arriving on 18 … Read More
Tasmanian Craft Fair 2018
Held annually in the picturesque township of Deloraine in northern Tasmania, an amazing array of talented artists and craftspeople exhibit and demonstrate their work as part of the Tasmanian Craft Fair.
Glover Prize 2018
Held over the long weekend in March, the Glover Prize celebrates the legacy of English born artist John Glover. The John Glover Art Prize (Glover Prize) has become one of Australia’s most significant awards for landscape painting, open to?artists from anywhere in the world.
The Patterdale Project
Colonial artist John Glover?s paintings display exquisite detail and glorious mastery. They also depict colonial heritage, the history of landscape art and an Aboriginal presence. It is all these things that see people making the pilgrimage to Glover?s former land grant, Patterdale Farm. The house at Patterdale, itself a subject of Glover paintings, still stands today and the landscape is … Read More
The Patterdale Project
Colonial artist John Glover?s paintings display exquisite detail and glorious mastery. They also depict colonial heritage, the history of landscape art and an Aboriginal presence. It is all these things that see people making the pilgrimage to Glover?s former land grant, Patterdale Farm. The house at Patterdale, itself a subject of Glover paintings, still stands today and the landscape is … Read More
Glover Prize
2017 is the 250th anniversary of Glover?s birth. To honour this significant date, the Glover Society is facilitating Glover 250, a program of activities throughout the state The diverse program gives you the chance to walk in the footsteps of this most important artist who wandered the island, sketching its landscape, its colonial homesteads and imagining an Aboriginal place prior to … Read More
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