Piers Greville wins the 2019 Glover Prize

Melbourne-based artist Piers Greville has won the 2019 Glover Prize for his entry entitled Pedder Prime Cuts, receiving $50,000 and a bronze maquette of colonial artist John Glover, whose legacy is celebrated through the Tasmanian contemporary landscape award. [caption id="attachment_58300" align="aligncenter" width="700"] Glover Prize 2019 Winner, Piers Greville with his work entitled Pedder Prime Cuts[/caption] Greville's winning work examines how our environment is thought of through painting; an idea that stems from a deeply personal enquiry of his urban existence and dwindling ecologies. While the work aims to interrogate more than instruct, the personal and political stance of the artist are…