ARONE MEEKS | 'Blu II' | c.2019 | Monoprint | Paper: 800 x 610 mm Northern Peninsula Area I was a grandmother by

I was a grandmother by the time we returned to our homeland and I used to live there most of the year

had changed into a snake

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is a fertile shape/waterhole

ARONE MEEKS | 'Blu II' | c.2019 | Monoprint | Paper: 800 x 610 mm Northern Peninsula Area I was a grandmother byAt 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.