ARONE MEEKS | 'Custodians, Keepers and Country - sereis XII' | 2017 | Monoprint | Paper: 800 x 560 mm Wrasse UNION MAGAZINE EXAMINES A CROSS-SECTION

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and Mawan Thai was a celebration and thanksgiving to him for these gifts

Hand-made in Cooktown

the language most used in my household is Kala Lagaw Ya and I live on Kubin Moa Island

RJIP and the Tropical North Queensland Indigenous Printmaking Program

ARONE MEEKS | 'Custodians, Keepers and Country - sereis XII' | 2017 | Monoprint | Paper: 800 x 560 mm Wrasse UNION MAGAZINE EXAMINES A CROSS-SECTIONAt the heart of the work is Meeks unique visual languagewhere ancestral knowledge systems intersect with contemporary experience. Influenced by the Quinkan rock art traditions of Cape York and the ancestral presence of the Rainbow Serpent, his works evoke a living cosmology of guardianship, movement and renewal. Recurring formswaterholes, woven vessels and flowing systemsspeak to the interconnectedness of people, place and cultural responsibility.