Congratulations to Aisha Sherman-Noth, who has won the 2025 Glover Prize for Weeping birches on the avenue. The Tasmanian-based artist wins $80,000 for the painting, which depicts weeping birch and poplar trees along the Brooker Highway into Hobart.
“The Brooker highway, outside the window of my home where the weeping birches and poplar trees stand beside it with golden silhouettes in the evening sun. I’ve watched them as the wind picks up their branches and throws them, these rustling leaves always muted by the drone of passing cars,” the artist says. “This is a place where nature and human activity blend, where the character of these trees is displaced and reinvented as they sit welcoming those that enter the city and bidding farewell to those that leave. My painting stands as an invitation to explore the dynamic relationships that exist between ourselves and nature, and how this can present itself in urban environments.”
The 2025 Prize was judged by Melissa Loughnan, Steven W. Joyce and Leslie Rice. Of the winning entry, Loughnan said, “We are so pleased to award the 2025 Glover Prize to Aisha Sherman-Noth. Her painting, Weeping birches on the avenue, is an exemplary landscape work, a very impressive achievement for a young artist at the beginning of her career. Brilliant yellow birches emanate from the canvas, hovering over pinks, greys and blues. What might otherwise be the everyday or mundane—the Brooker Highway into Hobart—is made brilliant. I can’t wait to see what comes from Aisha next.”
Among the 42 finalists, two have been highly commended: David Marsden for Firebreaks, and What for Great Oyster Bay. The Hanger’s Choice Award went to Lauren Elise Kennedy for her work Shifting waters.
The exhibition is open to the public from 8—16 March, when two other prizes will be drawn: the People’s Choice and Children’s Choice, which receive $3,000 and $500 respectively.
2025 John Glover Prize Exhibition
Falls Park Pavilion Evandale
8—16 March
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