ARONE MEEKS | 'Unbroken VII' | 2016 | Monoprint | Paper: 800 x 605 mm CIAF Market 2023 birds and powerful text-based messages

birds and powerful text-based messages feature in his artwork

Samuel Tupou

post reduction using sawdust and locally sourced seaweeds

Pormpuraaw

It records a moment in time—a fleeting contact between raw materials and fire

ARONE MEEKS | 'Unbroken VII' | 2016 | Monoprint | Paper: 800 x 605 mm CIAF Market 2023 birds and powerful text-based messagesAt 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.