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

I was forced to grow up in a dormitory

The intricate patterning contained in the shell represents weather patterns at this time of year with tidal changes and monsoons

Material: Recycled paintings

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.