ARONE MEEKS | 'Cryingame' | 1993 | Screenprint | Metalic ink | Paper: 760 x 560 mm Wall sculpture they protect this land it

they protect this land it is a spiritual Country to us

It is then left in a running stream for weeks to remove the starch

He has been the recipient of the The Cairns Airport Innovation Award (Girringun Aboriginal Art Centre

After 12 years in the contemporary Indigenous visual arts sector

2 x 5 x 1cm | 2026

ARONE MEEKS | 'Cryingame' | 1993 | Screenprint | Metalic ink | Paper: 760 x 560 mm Wall sculpture they protect this land itAt 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.