ARONE MEEKS | 'Cape Beasts in a Dinghy' | 2012 | Etching in one colour | Paper: 195 x 370 mm Uncle Noel Blair 1970 - 2012

1970 - 2012

I started working with natural pigments and plant extracts

a godsend for so many isolated by the onset of the pandemic

Billy Missi’n Wakain Thamai celebrates the artist's creative contribution to the contemporary cultural expression of the Zenadah Kes printmaking movement

and installation art

ARONE MEEKS | 'Cape Beasts in a Dinghy' | 2012 | Etching in one colour | Paper: 195 x 370 mm Uncle Noel Blair 1970 - 2012At 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.