ARONE MEEKS | 'Journey Home' | 2011 | Screen print in colour | Paper: 765 x 565 mm Nicole Chattfield “The Body Language Of Plants”

“The Body Language Of Plants” series developed over a few years while voluntarily working at the Australian Tropical Herbarium Cairns

and Third time said

Ceramic pieces are removed from the kiln while still glowing hot

Language is a powerful tool that is used by institutions to influence

no fear of looking bad

ARONE MEEKS | 'Journey Home' | 2011 | Screen print in colour | Paper: 765 x 565 mm Nicole Chattfield “The Body Language Of Plants”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.