ARONE MEEKS | 'Mosquito Men' | 2006 | Linocut | Black ink | Matrix: 530 x 320 x mm Padha ka marngi “A father will make his

“A father will make his son a shield and the father will sit up one end and the son will sit up the other end

It was fun playing and growing up on Bentinck as small girls but that soon changed when they came and took us away and dumped us on Mornington Island on 1946

Totem: Cyclone

This rain has gotten big

like the echidna

ARONE MEEKS | 'Mosquito Men' | 2006 | Linocut | Black ink | Matrix: 530 x 320 x mm Padha ka marngi “A father will make hisAt 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.