ARONE MEEKS | 'Singing Up' | 2011 | Screenprint | Paper: 760 x 560 mm Daniel Beeron The pattern in the background

The pattern in the background of the print symbolizes the incoming and outgoing tide

rain in the distance

The new way we talk

They form the backdrop and setting for her children’s books to preserve and record the intangible heritage of this area

IRENE BOWYER | ‘Rainbow Serpent Bangle' | Hand-painted wood

ARONE MEEKS | 'Singing Up' | 2011 | Screenprint | Paper: 760 x 560 mm Daniel Beeron The pattern in the backgroundNFAt 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.