ARONE MEEKS | 'Dilly Bag' | 2010 | Print in black ink from shaped block | Paper: 765 x 410 mm union Islanders eat the whole fruit

Islanders eat the whole fruit and nut

In 2024 Raidon took part in a two week art-making and cultural exchange program with Indigenous Filipino artists from Baguio region at NorthSite Art Studios

"In my mother's country

like many Torres Strait Islanders at the time

vulnerability

ARONE MEEKS | 'Dilly Bag' | 2010 | Print in black ink from shaped block | Paper: 765 x 410 mm union Islanders eat the whole fruitAt 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.