ARONE MEEKS | 'Gender Spirit II' | 2017 | Lithograph | Paper: 1215 x 805 mm Green Tree Frog as my grandmother Grace was

as my grandmother Grace was a skilled and knowledgeable hunter gatherer

The story tells of how two brothers – my father and my uncle (my father’s younger brother)

As the Korrakorr walked through the water

Cat: MOISWT6602

"This headdress is one of a number constructed for a story dance about aircraft movements between Ngurupai Horn Island military airfield and New Guinea during the Second World War

ARONE MEEKS | 'Gender Spirit II' | 2017 | Lithograph | Paper: 1215 x 805 mm Green Tree Frog as my grandmother Grace wasAt 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.