ARONE MEEKS | 'Singing Up' | 2011 | Screenprint | Paper: 760 x 560 mm Daniel Beeron rain in the distance

rain in the distance

The pattern in the background of the print symbolizes the incoming and outgoing tide

Shirley died in 2022 in Melbourne

(Father) Wik Alkan

You don’t see them way out

ARONE MEEKS | 'Singing Up' | 2011 | Screenprint | Paper: 760 x 560 mm Daniel Beeron rain in the distanceNFAt 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.