ARONE MEEKS | 'Mangrove Place' | 2009 | Coloured etching from shaped zinc plates | Paper: 1200 x 800 mm cowerie Much like a flash of

Much like a flash of sunset or a reflection in a lake

Brian Robinson was born in 1973 and grew up in the idyllic tropical surroundings of the Torres Strait Islands

Freshwater Shark

40 x 62 cm

part of my job was remounting a collection of plant species originally collected in Weipa on behalf of a Mining Company during the 1980s

ARONE MEEKS | 'Mangrove Place' | 2009 | Coloured etching from shaped zinc plates | Paper: 1200 x 800 mm cowerie Much like a flash ofIn Mangroves we continue the journey of the wet season as the rains flush out the creeks and rivers to create a rich alluvium that washes into the mangroves and then the sea. The mangroves are vitally important to many infant growing species that live there; as this is the rich nursery nurturing and protecting vast forms of sea life, until each creature is able to fend for itself. Aboriginal people have always relied on the mangroves as a food source.