ARONE MEEKS | 'Coral Spawning' | 2015 | Acrylic on canvas | Frame: 600 x 500 x 20 mm Jellyfish Language group: (Mother) Wik Alkan

Language group: (Mother) Wik Alkan

and they flew to the airfield at ngurupai

You can see Sweers Island from here

They are a good sign but the old people would wave their spears at them to keep them far from the camp

He spent the majority of 2024 studying production pottery and wood-firing techniques at the incredible Golden Bridge Pottery in southern India

ARONE MEEKS | 'Coral Spawning' | 2015 | Acrylic on canvas | Frame: 600 x 500 x 20 mm Jellyfish Language group: (Mother) Wik AlkanAt 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.