ARONE MEEKS | 'Boomalli 2017' | 2017 | Lithograph | Brown Ink | Paper: 760 x 570 mm Maharlina Gorospe-Lockie I am a Kuku Yalanji

I am a Kuku Yalanji Master Weaver based in Cairns

to witness a wide range of Aboriginal perspectives and mainstream political and media inference

Yidinji word for this tree is Julgil which is commonly called Pink Euodia

Hai nekong hongowa 'a nahamong

Koumans presents figures constructed from everyday flotsam and jetsam

ARONE MEEKS | 'Boomalli 2017' | 2017 | Lithograph | Brown Ink | Paper: 760 x 570 mm Maharlina Gorospe-Lockie I am a Kuku YalanjiAt 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.