ARONE MEEKS | 'Tidal Series VII' | 2008 | Monoprint | Paper: 760 x 570 mm Tek-aanan growling as means to reduce costs

as means to reduce costs of getting commercial materials from mainland – this then lead me to create with natural pigments

I was forced to grow up in a dormitory

Material: Recycled paintings

This Country is in the northern part of Bentinck Island

Lane’s work straddles the intersection of art

ARONE MEEKS | 'Tidal Series VII' | 2008 | Monoprint | Paper: 760 x 570 mm Tek-aanan growling as means to reduce costsAt 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.