ARONE MEEKS | 'Blue I' | c.2019 | Monoprint | Paper: 800 x 605 mm valentines day 2022 a descendant of the Wakka

a descendant of the Wakka Wakka

"This is my Father's Country in the South East of Bentinck Island

Editioning printmaker: Jacinta Numina Waugh

Far North Queensland artist Nina Lavarini Dawson takes inspiration from the natural environment – utilising native tropical plants to transform paper and textiles through an eco dye method

and liberation of the spirit

ARONE MEEKS | 'Blue I' | c.2019 | Monoprint | Paper: 800 x 605 mm valentines day 2022 a descendant of the WakkaAt 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.