IN THE four years that Ashley Bird and Patrick Sutczak have volunteered with the Glover Prize, they have seen the quality in the competition increase.
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It made choosing the hangers’ choice yesterday especially hard, but after much discussion the eerie familiarity of Jason Codera’s Between the Shadows came out on top.
There was much discussion before the volunteers made their pick – the diversity of entries has seen a video entry, a painting made from Monopoly houses and part of a tin shed hung among the 42 finalists.
It was the quality and depth of Codera’s landscape that sold the oil and linen work to the team of volunteers.
‘‘It has a mood and emotional quality that makes you feel that you’re part of the picture,’’ Bird said.
Years of interaction with the prize saw the pair greet several of the paintings like old friends.
‘‘James Walker always talks about aviation and the sky, and that’s the clouds as landscape,’’ Bird said of the artist’s entry, Making Landfall: An Eastern Connection.
‘‘There’s video work to found object work to relief sort of work.
‘‘We’re art lovers primarily on a base level, so we get a real kick out of seeing the art at close quarters.’’
Judges MCA director Elizabeth Ann McGregor, Monash Museum of Art curator Francis Parker and Devonport Regional Gallery director Ellie Ray will today choose the winner of the $40,000 landscape prize.
The winner will be announced tomorrow night.
FACT FILE
WHAT: 2015 Glover Prize exhibition.
WHEN: Saturday until Tuesday. Open 10am until 4pm.
WHERE: Falls Pavilion, Evandale.
HOW MUCH: Adults $8 and children under 17 free.