ARONE MEEKS | 'Tidal Series VII' | 2008 | Monoprint | Paper: 760 x 570 mm Tek-aanan growling Blackman speaks to some of

Blackman speaks to some of the issues at the centre of the Australian Government’s Close the Gap campaign

and dare us to imagine a future deeply respectful for the multiplicity of perspectives derived from the many custodians of the planet

I was forced to grow up in a dormitory

This Country is in the northern part of Bentinck Island

Lane’s work straddles the intersection of art

ARONE MEEKS | 'Tidal Series VII' | 2008 | Monoprint | Paper: 760 x 570 mm Tek-aanan growling Blackman speaks to some ofAt 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.