ARONE MEEKS | 'Common ground' | 2011 | Screenprint | Paper: 760 x 570 mm Sid Bruce Short Joe would turn it over on

would turn it over on its back

Kukuwamal ngaw palayzinga ngaw kab geth apual

I make art because it is in my heart

My uncle’s boat broke down

Thuwaw garka kulay tadayk

ARONE MEEKS | 'Common ground' | 2011 | Screenprint | Paper: 760 x 570 mm Sid Bruce Short Joe would turn it over onAt 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.