ARONE MEEKS | 'Blu II' | c.2019 | Monoprint | Paper: 800 x 610 mm Northern Peninsula Area Melanesian Institute for Arts and

Melanesian Institute for Arts and Communication (MIAC) University of Papua New Guinea

The Dhangal is moving forward

Originally a method for recording fish catches

I was born on Bentinck Island at a place on the Northern side called Bilmee

I was a grandmother by the time we returned to our homeland and I used to live there most of the year

ARONE MEEKS | 'Blu II' | c.2019 | Monoprint | Paper: 800 x 610 mm Northern Peninsula Area Melanesian Institute for Arts andAt 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.