Joan Ross asks the pertinent question… is having ‘all the trappings’ still revered or has our settler culture relaxed its privileged sense of entitlement? Have we finally stopped collecting the things uncollectable? Or will our colonial efforts to possess Australia just go on ad infinitum…

Image: The takeover — 1803, 2025, hand-painted digital print on cotton rag paper, 60 x 52.5 cm (image size), edition of 15 plus 2 artist’s proofs.