ORIGINAL ARTWORK
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For more than two decades, BrandNet has commissioned original artworks to tell Australian military stories. These paintings became the source of limited-edition prints, medallions, collectables and gifts that found their way into thousands of Australian homes. The original paintings themselves were never sold. They have remained in the BrandNet Archives ever since.
Now, for the first time, the originals are being offered to collectors. Unlike the numbered editions that came after it, the original is not one of a limited edition. It is a true one of one. There is only one original, and once it is sold it leaves the BrandNet Archives and will never be available again.
The Battle of Lone Pine is the original acrylic on canvas by Adelaide artist Drew Harrison, commissioned by Military Shop in 2012 for the 2013 Sands of Gallipoli collection. It depicts the opening assault of 6 August 1915, when the Australian 1st Brigade advanced across exposed ground on the 400 Plateau towards Ottoman trenches roofed with pine logs and earth. Soldiers were forced to tear at the overhead protection and fight their way in. What was planned as a diversion to draw Ottoman reserves away from the Sari Bair offensive became four days of brutal close-quarter fighting and one of the defining Australian actions of the Gallipoli campaign.
This artwork was commissioned by BrandNet in 2012.
Harrison worked with Brigadier Chris Roberts AM CSC (Retd) and historian Graham Wilson to represent the terrain, line of attack, uniforms and trench system with unusual precision. Roberts had visited the Lone Pine battlefield before its later redevelopment and brought first-hand knowledge of its compact scale. Particular attention was paid to details easily lost in a dramatic painting: the late-afternoon light, the Australians’ white patches and armbands, soldiers’ kit and the covered Ottoman trenches. Because surviving photographs of the opening phase are limited, Harrison also drew on the Australian War Memorial’s Lone Pine diorama.
The composition uses the struggle around the covered front-line positions to make the trench system understandable, and brings opposing soldiers into the same confined visual space, reflecting the extraordinarily close-range nature of the fighting once the trench line was reached. Harrison’s notes make his intent clear: a requiem, not a glorification, honouring those who served and died without romanticising the violence of battle.
The original is the unique source work behind the Lone Pine limited editions and medallions that followed, and one of the major Gallipoli commissions preserved in the BrandNet Archives.
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