City of Hobart prize: Captain Cook playing golf and light bulb glasswork win award
An image of Captain James Cook holding a golf club amid a clutch of cane toads is one of the winners of this year's City of Hobart Art Prize.
Two interstate artists have shared in the $30,000 prize pool for this year's prize.
Rew Hanks from New South Wales won the print making category for his lino cut depicting Captain Cook playing golf.
South Australia's Tom Moore topped the glass category for his work featuring a light bulb with a plant on the top and a character inside.
Both men will receive $15,000 in prize money.
Hanks said his print featuring Captain Cook had political connotations with underlying messages.
"It's got lots of deep and meaningful undertones to it, it's saying that Australians tend to prefer, they sponsor and fund sport over the environment," he said.
"It's basically linking the European invasion with cane toads.
"Captain cook died in Hawaii, which is actually where the cane toad came from, so there's a nice sort of cyclic link there."
Moore's "light bulb moment" reflected on the history of electricity.
"It's a head and it's a light bulb, and it's a container for the character who lives inside and can't get out," he said.
"To be one of the winners is just amazing and the previous winners are my distinguished friends so...I feel very proud to become a part of that as a lasting thing."
This year's prize attracted 260 entries overall.
An exhibition of 52 entrants will run until the end of November at the Tasmanian Museum and Art Gallery
The City of Hobart prize is in its 26th year.
