ARONE MEEKS | 'Cape Beasts in a Dinghy' | 2012 | Etching in one colour | Paper: 195 x 370 mm Uncle Noel Blair PHILIP DENHAM | ‘Bagu’ |

PHILIP DENHAM | ‘Bagu’ | Ceramic sculpture | 23 (h)  x 11

Billy Missi’n Wakain Thamai celebrates the artist's creative contribution to the contemporary cultural expression of the Zenadah Kes printmaking movement

These four dhoeri’s represent the cultural practices that was brought with the families during the movement from Saibai Island to the mainland

I have 4 sisters and 2 brothers

Darren graduated from the Contemporary Indigenous Art Program at Queensland College of Art

ARONE MEEKS | 'Cape Beasts in a Dinghy' | 2012 | Etching in one colour | Paper: 195 x 370 mm Uncle Noel Blair PHILIP DENHAM | ‘Bagu’ |At 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.