ARONE MEEKS | 'Impact' | 2011 | Screenprint in black ink | Paper: 650 x 500 mm Artlink Magazine Paper type: Hahnemuhle off white

Paper type: Hahnemuhle off white 300 GSM

and patterns they create have been an inspiration to my work

Thithuyil palayzinga inub zagethnu muynu thonar tidayzinga ngaw babthal a tukuypal

Every Christmas break my family and I go to Arkai Buthu and walk from one end to another luring for squid

His father is Ganggalu

ARONE MEEKS | 'Impact' | 2011 | Screenprint in black ink | Paper: 650 x 500 mm Artlink Magazine Paper type: Hahnemuhle off whiteAt 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.