ARONE MEEKS | 'Dilly Bag' | 2010 | Print in black ink from shaped block | Paper: 765 x 410 mm union "In my mother's country

"In my mother's country

– 2 tbsp Plain Flour

'BAIT FISH'

Islanders eat the whole fruit and nut

based upon the sequence of natural disasters that befall Queensland in the beginning of that year

ARONE MEEKS | 'Dilly Bag' | 2010 | Print in black ink from shaped block | Paper: 765 x 410 mm union "In my mother's countryAt 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.