ARONE MEEKS | 'Singing Up' | 2011 | Screenprint | Paper: 760 x 560 mm Daniel Beeron You don’t see them way

You don’t see them way out

"My language name is Juda Juda named after my Mother's mother from Bentick Island

IRENE BOWYER | ‘Rainbow Serpent Bangle' | Hand-painted wood

The pattern in the background of the print symbolizes the incoming and outgoing tide

They form the backdrop and setting for her children’s books to preserve and record the intangible heritage of this area

ARONE MEEKS | 'Singing Up' | 2011 | Screenprint | Paper: 760 x 560 mm Daniel Beeron You don’t see them wayNFAt 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.