People's Choice - 2009 Glover Prize

Ranelagh Twilight

The following is extracted from an article in today's Launceston Examiner:

Kingston Beach artist Stephanie Tabram has won the $3000 Greg Waddle People's Choice Award at this year's Glover Prize landscape art competition.
Votes from visitors to the nation's richest landscape painting prize exhibition over the past five days identified her large-scale painting titled Ranelagh Twilight as the winner.
Tabram has been painting for 25 years and trained at the College of Fine Arts in Sydney. She was elated to have won this, her first art prize.
``The people's choice to me is more of an emotional vote, so I've been able to meet my audience somewhere,'' she said.
On Friday night competition judges declared Hobart artist Matthew Armstrong's oil painting of an urban Hobart streetscape entitled Transformed At Night winner of the $30,000 Glover Art Prize for 2009.
Judges were Sydney Morning Herald art critic John McDonald, artist and 2007 Archibald Prize winner John Beard and National Gallery of Victoria senior contemporary art curator Alex Baker.