ARONE MEEKS | 'Passage' | 2011 | Screenprint | Paper: 570 x 760 mm Hannah Parker Paper size: 1220mm x 800mm

Paper size: 1220mm x 800mm

create and screenprint natural fibre handmade and sweatshop free clothing

Taicee Pearson

This is one of many everyday activities that occur in the vast seascape environment within the Maluilgal (Western Torres Strait) waterway

personal cultural subjects and birds feature heavily in his artwork

ARONE MEEKS | 'Passage' | 2011 | Screenprint | Paper: 570 x 760 mm Hannah Parker Paper size: 1220mm x 800mmAt 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.