ARONE MEEKS | 'Unbroken VII' | 2016 | Monoprint | Paper: 800 x 605 mm CIAF Market 2023 birds and powerful text-based messages

birds and powerful text-based messages feature in his artwork

The pattern of the song at the top of the print is continued in the paddles

KAT HALL | ‘Mudslide Cup’ | Short Cup II / No Handle

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Samuel Tupou

ARONE MEEKS | 'Unbroken VII' | 2016 | Monoprint | Paper: 800 x 605 mm CIAF Market 2023 birds and powerful text-based messagesAt 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.