OBERON artist Harrie Fasher says her new exhibition on show in inner Sydney is the culmination of many years of work.
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The collection, Studies In Bronze And Steel, is at the well-known King Street Gallery at Darlinghurst, east of the Sydney CBD.
"I am very excited about this work - it is a process I have been experimenting with for years using bronze and steel,” Ms Fasher said.
I am very excited about this work - it is a process I have been experimenting with for years using bronze and steel.
"Bronze can capture the tactility of organic materials, and gestures such as fingerprints in metal - I love it.
“After five years training with artists in Blackheath, and Suffolk in the UK, I produced the work with my team Nicole O'Regan and Stephen Hogan at the foundry in Australian National University, Canberra.”
Ms Fasher’s sculpture works feature horses constructed from steel and she says the reason she uses steel is that it allows her to draw in three dimensions.
Her large-scale steel sculptures are said to embody tension and movement.
In 2017, she exhibited at Bathurst Regional Art Gallery with her monumental sculpture The Last Charge, which captured the raw emotion of the last charge of the Light Horse at the Battle of Beersheba in 1917 during World War One.
The Last Charge, entered in the 2017 Sculpture by the Sea competition, was described as a powerful and terrifying vision of cavalry in full flight, evoking the roar and chaos of battle, and the indefatigable bond between horse and rider.
"How many artists can look back on their careers and identify an ‘I have arrived’ moment?” Sydney Morning Herald art critic John McDonald asked.
“For Harrie Fasher, the turning point came in 2017 when she exhibited The Last Charge in the Sculpture by the Sea at Bondi.
“With one extraordinary work, Fasher staked a claim to be seen as a major Australian sculptor.
“It wasn’t just the scale of the piece that was so impressive, it was the level of artistic ambition and the mind-boggling amount of labour involved.
“No-one could look upon that ensemble of twisted steel without recognising the many hours it must have taken to bring the project to fruition."
Studies In Bronze And Steel will be at the King Street Gallery at 177 William Street, Darlinghurst until August 10.
