ARONE MEEKS | 'Journey Home' | 2011 | Screenprint | Metalic ink | Paper: 560 x 760 mm Bijurr They put paint on him

They put paint on him so he was black and he hid behind a log so the Blue Tongue Lizard wouldn’t see him

decorations

Bottom Story: Is how Thuwathu the Rainbow Serpentremained on the earth - his resting place is on and in the land and sea

JANE DENNIS | 'Shadow of a Doubt' | 2023 | Gyotaku print / ink + raw fish | 30 x 30 cm | $220

ELVERINA JOHNSON (‘BUNYA BADJIL’)

ARONE MEEKS | 'Journey Home' | 2011 | Screenprint | Metalic ink | Paper: 560 x 760 mm Bijurr They put paint on himAt 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.