Community & Business
24 April, 2026
ANZACs commemorated in Art
Nobby artist, Angela Hart, has an evocative and poignant body of work on display which tells the story of the ANZACs, their horses and their collective struggle.
In the Pepperina Art Space shopfront at Nobby, are four of Angela Hart’s paintings.
Each one is a scene, depicting a certain moment from the ‘Great War’.
The ‘Great War’ because it was in many ways, the last great cavalry war.
Horses went overseas with the men, even less of them were to come back.
Angela has always been a rider, she’s reared horses, is a keen campdrafter and chatterer to our four legged friends, so the story of the war-horses that were left behind struck Angela.
“I was listening to a podcast of the ANZACs and my uncle, Jim Trimingham was a prisoner of war in WW2,” she said.
The stories resonate, especially as in recent years, Angela has delved into her family histories, in particular those of relatives who served in war.
“My son, Kyle, he received all his grandfather’s and great-grandfather’s medals from WW1 and WW2,” Angela said.
“Listening to the podcast and the stories of the men, the horses, and then the dogs, they left a lot of dogs over there, they couldn’t bring their dogs home.”
“So the inspiration is letting go of your best mate, saying goodbye to him.”
Her love of horses drew Angela to the subject.
“See my whole life I’ve been around horses,” she said.
“You put yourself in their place and it just bubbles to the surface.
“I wanted for people to look at my paintings and I wanted them to cry.
“I want them to feel something, to see the stories and know and make people think.”
Her work communicates the tragedy in amongst the otherwise glorious image of the cavalry charge, or the soldier and war-horse pairing.
One of her pieces, titled ‘5am on the 11th’ reflects on the split second that must have occurred between the war and the Armistice.
The piece is a soldier lying in the mud, his horse not far away, a quiet moment in amongst the furore of the war.
The way Angela paints seeks to capture that raw essence, in between the experience and an image.
Through her love of horses Angela’s work is a powerful impression of the bonds forged between man and beast in war.
A harrowing homage to what the young men of that generation had to go through in service of their country.
Available to view in the Pepperina Art Space at Nobby, Angela’s paintings are striking, to say the least.
