Sidney Nolan predicted that a settler mentality would spell the demise of Australia, both people and landscape.

In 1952 he made a series of paintings chronicling the drought in western Queensland whilst, at the same time, reflecting on the position of the white settler population in remote Australia. Ruminating on Nolan’s ideas, his paintings and drawings of carcasses started to represent, in my mind, the destructive nature of many government policies in the history of Australia and the impossibility of moving past a use and destroy mentality when it comes to the big picture.