Vanessa Goodwin: Lake St Clair Art Exhibition Features Glover Prize Painting

The Liberal Government is committed to building on our competitive strengths, including in our arts, cultural and creative sectors, to help grow jobs and contribute further to our vibrant community.

I am delighted to announce that this year’s Glover prize-winning painting Looking South from the Labyrinth to Mount Olympus and Lake St Clair, by Mark Rodda, will be the centrepiece of an art exhibition celebrating the beauty of the World Heritage Area.

The Leeawuleena Sleeping Water Art Exhibition opens on Friday 6th June and runs until 15th June 2014 at the Lake St Clair Visitors Centre.

Mr Rodda’s painting will be joined by another 20 works from painters, illustrators, printmakers, photographers and sculptors that have been associated with Arts Tasmania’s Artists in Residence program or with the Parks and Wildlife Service at Lake St Clair.

John Glover, known as the father of Australian landscape painting, sketched the majestic landscape of Lake St Clair’s sparkling lake and impressive mountains in 1835 and the landscape has been inspiring artists ever since.

Mr Rodda, who was raised at New Norfolk and now lives in Victoria, will be at Lake St Clair from 5 to 8 June.

I am really looking forward to his exhibition and hope this inspires another generation of Tasmanians artists to create more works that celebrate the area.
Vanessa Goodwin, Minister for the Arts