Artists:

Alison Alder

Description: Sidney Nolan predicted that a settler mentality would spell the dmise of Australia, both people and landscape. In the 1950's he made a series of paintings chronicling the drought in western Queensland, whilst reflecting on the position of the white settler population in remote Australia. Whilst ruminating on Nolan's ideas, his paintings and drawing 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.

Dates:
09 August 2009 to 13 September 2009