ARONE MEEKS | 'Mangrove Place' | 2009 | Coloured etching from shaped zinc plates | Paper: 1200 x 800 mm cowerie Senab thonarnu

Senab thonarnu

Freshwater Shark

Brian Robinson was born in 1973 and grew up in the idyllic tropical surroundings of the Torres Strait Islands

They are like small tornadoes and are very dangerous if you are caught out in a boat or on the beach

ARONE MEEKS | 'Mangrove Place' | 2009 | Coloured etching from shaped zinc plates | Paper: 1200 x 800 mm cowerie Senab thonarnuIn Mangroves we continue the journey of the wet season as the rains flush out the creeks and rivers to create a rich alluvium that washes into the mangroves and then the sea. The mangroves are vitally important to many infant growing species that live there; as this is the rich nursery nurturing and protecting vast forms of sea life, until each creature is able to fend for itself. Aboriginal people have always relied on the mangroves as a food source.