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Collection Highlight Orange Regional Art Gallery, 2020

Essay by Lucy Stranger, Curator and Exhibitions Coordinator, Orange Regional Art Gallery

Harrie Fasher: The Last Charge

Review by John McDonald

Published February 16, 2018

 

A series of videos from women based in Mid West NSW working in a male dominated industry for International Women's Day 2021

Motion, gravity, playfulness, materiality and the thread of life itself - all elements from Harrie Fasher's latest sculptural pieces. Harrie explains to Richard Morecroft the multiple steps in creating a work incorporating bronze, steel and concrete - and the excitement of occupying a heritage-listed creative space which will include her own foundry.

Harrie Fasher's monumental sculpture The Last Charge captures the raw emotion of the last charge of the Light Horse at the Battle of Beersheba on October 31, 1917. This powerful and terrifying vision of cavalry in full flight evokes the roar and chaos of battle, and the indefatigable bond between horse and rider. Forged from rusted and twisted steel rods, Fasher's horses embody the human, channelling the violence and determination that led to victory at Beershba. First exhibited in the 2017 Sculpture by the Sea, Bondi, The Last Charge is a potent and poignant memorial to the horses and cavalrymen of the 4th Light Horse Brigade. Harrie Fasher: The Last Charge. Producer: Catherine Hunter. Videographer & Editor: Bruce Inglis

Harrie Fasher explores the relationship between horses and humans. The sculpture was on show in the National Museum of Australia exhibition 'Spirited: Australia's Horse Story'.