ARONE MEEKS | 'Untitled (three figures singing up country)' | 2011 | Screenprint Micheal A Mel The Early Ones

The Early Ones

We still hunt and camp here when we have the chance

As night falls in the village

CHOLENA HUGHES | ‘Clay Weaving #6 | Raku fired pot with Madagascan raffia | 12 (dia)  x 7 (h) cm

ARONE MEEKS | 'Untitled (three figures singing up country)' | 2011 | Screenprint Micheal A Mel The Early OnesAt 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.