ARONE MEEKS | 'Thylacine Bass Strait' | 2011 | Screenprint | Paper: 570 x 560 mm Birds selected as a finalist in

selected as a finalist in the 27th Telstra National Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Art Awards

He was raised in Aurukun by his parents

JANE DENNIS | 'Steerage' | Gift card | Hand-coloured linocut

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Preface by Honorable James Marape  Prime Minister of Papua New Guinea Foreword by Steven Enomb Kilanda MBE Executive Director

ARONE MEEKS | 'Thylacine Bass Strait' | 2011 | Screenprint | Paper: 570 x 560 mm Birds selected as a finalist inAt 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.