Aisha Sherman-Noth Wins Glover Prize 2025

Aisha Sherman-Noth has been awarded the prestigious Glover Prize 2025 for her striking painting Weeping birches on the avenue. The Tasmanian-based artist’s entry impressed the judges with its vivid portrayal of the Brooker Highway, an urban thoroughfare near her home.

Sherman-Noth describes the inspiration behind her work: “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… 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 Glover Prize judges – Melissa Loughnan, Steven W. Joyce and Leslie Rice – were captivated by Sherman-Noth’s ability to transform what might seem like a mundane scene into something profound. Loughnan commented, “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.”

Sherman-Noth wins $80,000 and a bronze maquette of colonial artist John Glover. David Marsden’s Firebreaks and What’s What’s Great Oyster Bay, were highly commended by the judges for their unique interpretations of landscape, highlighting the diverse range of approaches in this year’s competition.

The finalists’ exhibition runs from 8-16 March at the historic Falls Park Pavilion in Evandale. The People’s Choice and Children’s Choice Awards will be awarded on the last day of the exhibition, Sunday 17 March.

For more information, visit the Glover Prize website.