JOHN HAWKINS
I also love Tasmania, therefore I have spent a lot of energy, time and money on both the built and landscape heritage of this island, with little or no help and certainly no encouragement from Gadd’s Heritage Council. For better or worse the Tasmanian landscape, past and present is as much the result of European settlement, as is its built environment. This landscape has been the driving force behind far more insightful artists than Bull. Glover would have suggested that Mills Plains provided him with the inspiration to encapsulate in paint the Arcadian landscape that had drawn him to Tasmania. He would not be amused by the trashing of the slopes of Ben Lomond. Try driving from Mills Plains to Ben Lomond it makes you want to put in jail those responsible for the in your face corruption that has allowed such carnage to take place.
Gadd had the responsibility to gild the frames that contained Glover’s iconic images rather than facilitate their destruction. Intelligent tourists only visit Tasmania for its landscape and built heritage, they see the whole picture, for our built environment cannot retain its integrity outside a suitable setting. Read more, Comment at the end of the article, here
