ARONE MEEKS | 'Mosquito Men' | 2006 | Linocut | Black ink | Matrix: 530 x 320 x mm Padha ka marngi This rain has gotten big

This rain has gotten big

sparing neither women

overseeing day-to-day life and educating youths in rituals

Olivia Chow

ARONE MEEKS | 'Mosquito Men' | 2006 | Linocut | Black ink | Matrix: 530 x 320 x mm Padha ka marngi This rain has gotten bigAt 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.