ARONE MEEKS | 'Untitled' | 2020 | Monoprint (8) | Paper: 800 x 560 mm Michael Nona Handmade in Cooktown

Handmade in Cooktown

YASUE ASAI | ‘Fern – Orange/ Green' | Gift card | Hand-coloured Cyanotype

Both my parents were born in the bush

drawing and public art commissions as well as linoprints

the massive boat frame stood as a 17m long

ARONE MEEKS | 'Untitled' | 2020 | Monoprint (8) | Paper: 800 x 560 mm Michael Nona Handmade in CooktownAt 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.