Children were confused when they realised a hunk of meat on a bed of mashed potato won a landscape art award.
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"Look at that chicken," one Ringarooma Primary School pupil said.
"Oh that's the winner," his friend replied.
"What do you mean? the chicken?" he said.
The school group was part of about 300 students that went through the Glover Prize on Tuesday.
They are expected to be part of more than 1000 students who look at the artworks during the next few days.
For grade four pupil Maddy Fletcher, it was the landscape of Timothy Heazlewood's Takayna Symphony that got her vote.
"I like that it's colourful and sometimes not colourful," she said.
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Lachie Thompson's favourite was Paul Becker's Creeping darkness, the pyre of political correctness.
"I like it because I like animals and the farm. It reminds me of when we have a bonfire at home and we all stand around it," he said.
Glover Prize curator Megan Dick said about 1200 students from early grades to TEC students from across 25 schools planned to view the 2020 exhibition.
"Usually, there is some project associated with the Glover Prize that the schools have. So, they come and experience the exhibition, then they take that back into the classroom and have other learnings around it," she said.
"Within the art works they can pull out different themes, like history is always reflected in the art works, so teachers and students can talk about history. Environmental concerns are always prominent, too."
The Glover Society is also working with the Australian Decorative Fine Arts Society to sponsor schools who would not normally be able to attend the exhibition.
"The group from Ringarooma have been on a bus for two hours and 20 minutes to have a look at the exhibition and then get back on a bus to go back to school. That's nearly five hours on a bus," Ms Dick said.
"But I think it's really important to put different things in front of children's eyes and this variety of contemporary visual art is really important for them ... and just to sort of have that feeling of excursion."
She said students tend to view the exhibition differently to other adults.
"I think children are still learners and actually have a very open mind about art."
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