ARONE MEEKS | 'Impact II' | 2011 | Screenprint | Paper: 755 x 560 mm Maldives Artworks Book and every time it came

and every time it came it brushed all the whiskers back from the squids mouth and head

JEANON BAIRA - Moa Arts | 'Roast White Fish' | Tea towel

By printing on textiles

"I was born soon after my people crossed over to Mornington Island

ARONE MEEKS | 'Impact II' | 2011 | Screenprint | Paper: 755 x 560 mm Maldives Artworks Book and every time it cameAt 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.