ARONE MEEKS | 'Mangroves' | 2011 | Screenprint | Paper: 755 x 560 mm Gaynah When I was a teenager

When I was a teenager I went to boarding school in Herbiton

He didn't know I was coming

and strongly connected with the natural surroundings

Wowraw thonar senab thonar milagnu kedha warul matha tadimik

ARONE MEEKS | 'Mangroves' | 2011 | Screenprint | Paper: 755 x 560 mm Gaynah When I was a teenagerAt 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.