ARONE MEEKS | 'Custodians, Keepers and Country - sereis XII' | 2017 | Monoprint | Paper: 800 x 560 mm Wrasse and Mawan Thai was a

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

Hand-made in Cooktown

FLOODLAND draws parallels between the constructed worlds of art

the traditional language of the Western Torres Strait Islander people

ARONE MEEKS | 'Custodians, Keepers and Country - sereis XII' | 2017 | Monoprint | Paper: 800 x 560 mm Wrasse and Mawan Thai was aAt 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.