ARONE MEEKS | 'White Coral Spawning V' | 2013 | Monoprint | Paper: 800 x 600 mm Ethel Thomas I own this country and

I own this country and this country owns me

"This headdress is one of a number constructed for a story dance about aircraft movements between Ngurupai Horn Island military airfield and New Guinea during the Second World War

NETTA LOOGATHA | 'Rukathai I' | Painting / stretched | Synthetic painting on polymer | 91 x 61 cm

The barramundi clan came from Northern Territory and travelled through Queensland and some

the pattern

ARONE MEEKS | 'White Coral Spawning V' | 2013 | Monoprint | Paper: 800 x 600 mm Ethel Thomas I own this country andAt 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.