ARONE MEEKS | 'Everyone's Buisness' | 1993 | Lithograph in brow ink | Paper: 760 x 565 mm; Matrix: 510 x 380 x mm Waru Kazi 2015 KAT HALL | 'Forest Floor

KAT HALL | 'Forest Floor – Medium bowl’ | Ceramic dish | 21 H x 22 (dia) cm

Crayfish crawl along the right side of the shell

When the sun begins to set in the western sky

The Warups are then decorated with cassowary feathers and bees' wax and carved with traditional designs which either represent the tribe or what the actual ceremony is about

"This is a face painting - the long lines for the forehead and the four on either cheek

ARONE MEEKS | 'Everyone's Buisness' | 1993 | Lithograph in brow ink | Paper: 760 x 565 mm; Matrix: 510 x 380 x mm Waru Kazi 2015 KAT HALL | 'Forest FloorAt 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.