ARONE MEEKS | 'Star Ark' | 2011 | Block printed in black ink | Matrix: 305 x 150 x mm card 5 (h) x 40

5 (h) x 40

MELODY WOODNUTT | 'Liminal Seascape' | 2025 | Archival pigment print on Hahnemühle Hemp paper / from cropped 16mm film still

One other lugger was found beached on Thursday Island

People who have dreaming like these totem spirits their spirit go up to the sky when they die

With more than twenty years of painting experience

ARONE MEEKS | 'Star Ark' | 2011 | Block printed in black ink | Matrix: 305 x 150 x mm card 5 (h) x 40At 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.