Recent graduate Aisha Sherman-Noth has taken out Australia’s leading landscape art award, the $80,000 Glover Prize.
Aisha, who completed a double degree in Fine Arts and Science last year, won with her work Weeping birches on the avenue.
Birches and poplars along the Brooker Highway in Hobart, made golden by the evening sun, are depicted in the painting.
“I’ve watched them as the wind picks up their branches and throws them, these rustling leaves always muted by the drone of passing cars,” Aisha said in her artist’s statement.
“My painting Weeping birches on the avenue stands as an invitation to explore the dynamic relationships that exist between ourselves and nature, and how this can present itself in urban environments.”
Judges Melissa Loughnan, Steven W Joyce and Leslie Rice described Aisha’s work as an impressive achievement for a young artist at the beginning of her career.
“What might otherwise be the everyday or mundane - the Brooker Highway into Hobart - is made brilliant,” lead judge Ms Loughnan said.
“I can’t wait to see what comes from Aisha next.”
Founded in 2004, the Glover Prize honours the finest contemporary landscape painting of Tasmania created in the past 12 months.
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