ARONE MEEKS | 'Journey Home' | 2011 | Screenprint | Metalic ink | Paper: 560 x 760 mm Bijurr ELVERINA JOHNSON (‘BUNYA BADJIL’)

ELVERINA JOHNSON (‘BUNYA BADJIL’)

decorations

using the stars to find his way

I celebrate the balance between structure and freedom

JOHN WILLIAMS | ‘Seahawk Yarakara Leg Paint-Up II' | 2021 | Acrylic on canvas board | 35

ARONE MEEKS | 'Journey Home' | 2011 | Screenprint | Metalic ink | Paper: 560 x 760 mm Bijurr ELVERINA JOHNSON (‘BUNYA BADJIL’)At 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.