Harrie Fasher: The Last Charge will be opened on Friday, February 9 by Professor Amanda Lawson, executive dean of the Faculty of Law, Humanities and the Arts at the University of Wollongong.

The gallery’s audience engagement officer Penny May said Ms Fasher’s sculpture “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,” she said.

The sculpture, which has been created from rusted and twisted steel rods, was first exhibited in the 2017 Sculpture by the Sea at Bondi.

Ms Fasher, based in Oberon, produces steel sculptures that embody tension and movement, using both abstraction and figurative form, predominantly the horse, to convey her message.

Ms Fasher has participated in national and international  residencies, including the Baer Art Centre Residency in  Iceland and Bathurst Regional Art Gallery’s Hill End Residency.

She travelled to the United Kingdom in 2013 to  undertake an artist in residency at the Butley Mills Bronze Foundry.

Passionate about the development of the arts, Ms Fasher facilitates steel sculpture workshops and public speaking programs. 

She had a permanent large scale public sculpture, Our  Light Horse, installed in Oberon for the ANZAC centenary 2015, and her work The Bird and I was acquired for the Forbes community through the Forbes Sculpture Acquisition Prize, 2015.

The opening at the gallery will begin at 6pm. ​