ARONE MEEKS | 'Journey Home' | 2011 | Screen print in colour | Paper: 765 x 565 mm Nicole Chattfield 5cm (image size)

5cm (image size)

Details: Hand-dyed pandanus and cabbage palm with feathers

“The Body Language Of Plants” series developed over a few years while voluntarily working at the Australian Tropical Herbarium Cairns

there are inspiring shapes and forms to be observed everywhere

When I was in my twenties I went to live in Normanton and Croydon

ARONE MEEKS | 'Journey Home' | 2011 | Screen print in colour | Paper: 765 x 565 mm Nicole Chattfield 5cm (image size)At 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.