State's darkest hour wins Glover prize

By Mary Machen
Updated June 27 2012 - 10:35am, first published March 9 2012 - 12:49pm
Glover Art Prize winner Rodney Pople, with his painting Port Arthur. Picture: PHILLIP BIGGS
Glover Art Prize winner Rodney Pople, with his painting Port Arthur. Picture: PHILLIP BIGGS

TASMANIA'S darkest hour _ the 1996 Port Arthur massacre where 35 people were shot dead by Martin Bryant _ is at the heart of a provocative painting which last night won the $35,000 acquisitive Glover Art Prize for Landscape.

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