ARONE MEEKS | 'Impact III' | 2011 | Screenprint | Paper: 755 x 560 mm Banggarra my people and my homeland

my people and my homeland

created to be part of your everyday adventures

BRIAN ROBINSON | 'Dawn Raid Strategy' | 2011 | Linocut print | 40 (h)  x 78

Because of the narrow passage between the reefs the dugongs herd in large numbers

ARONE MEEKS | 'Impact III' | 2011 | Screenprint | Paper: 755 x 560 mm Banggarra my people and my homelandAt 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.