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 The Nek is the original acrylic on canvas by Drew Harrison, created for the Sands of Gallipoli Battles of Gallipoli collection. At 4.30am on 7 August 1915, the first line of the Victorian 8th Light Horse Regiment rose from their trenches and charged across roughly 27 metres of exposed ground towards the Ottoman positions on Baby 700. The second line followed two minutes later. Both were devastated. The Western Australian 10th Light Horse formed the third wave despite the efforts of Lieutenant Colonel Noel Brazier to stop the attack, and confusion sent part of the fourth line forward. Within about fifteen minutes the assault was effectively over, with 372 casualties in the two regiments. The charge is remembered for extraordinary courage and catastrophic loss.
Working with historian and retired Army Warrant Officer Graham Wilson, Harrison deliberately departed from George Lambert’s famous interpretation of the charge. Instead of looking uphill with the Australians, the viewer is placed close to the Ottoman forward position, looking back into the charge, in the instant before a machine gunner resets his sights. The weapon and crew sit in the foreground, making the lethal imbalance of the attack immediately understandable, while the Australians are shown face on, compressed by foreshortening into a narrow field. Harrison’s notes emphasise individual fear, adrenaline and determination rather than an anonymous mass, and early-morning light draws the eye away from the larger Ottoman figures and onto the Australians, seconds from the trench.
The research also challenged the familiar story that a mistimed bombardment alone caused the disaster, arguing the decisive problem was that the bombardment failed to neutralise the forward Ottoman trenches and the machine guns covering the approach.
The original is the unique source work behind the Battle of The Nek limited editions and medallions, and one of the major Gallipoli commissions preserved in the BrandNet Archives.
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