ARONE MEEKS | 'Tidal Series VII' | 2008 | Monoprint | Paper: 760 x 570 mm Tek-aanan growling Professor Susan Best and Leighton

Professor Susan Best and Leighton Craig

His curated survey exhibition of sculptural works

Blackman speaks to some of the issues at the centre of the Australian Government’s Close the Gap campaign

as means to reduce costs of getting commercial materials from mainland – this then lead me to create with natural pigments

and then the ground was tilled with hardwood and bone digging sticks

ARONE MEEKS | 'Tidal Series VII' | 2008 | Monoprint | Paper: 760 x 570 mm Tek-aanan growling Professor Susan Best and LeightonAt 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.