ARONE MEEKS | 'Common ground' | 2011 | Screenprint | Paper: 760 x 570 mm Sid Bruce Short Joe My uncle’s boat broke down

My uncle’s boat broke down

Language group: (Mother) Wik Alkan

would turn it over on its back

Our mothers and aunties would tell us stories using these natural figurines while drawing in the sand

Knowing what it takes to add value to life we become that forest

ARONE MEEKS | 'Common ground' | 2011 | Screenprint | Paper: 760 x 570 mm Sid Bruce Short Joe My uncle’s boat broke downAt 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.