ARONE MEEKS | 'Blu II' | c.2019 | Monoprint | Paper: 800 x 610 mm Northern Peninsula Area Paper size: 400 x 300

Paper size: 400 x 300 mm

Heather Koowootha is a multi-disciplinary artist working in the mediums of printmaking

the first major touring exhibition and catalogue of the traditional and contemporary material culture of the Torres Strait Island people

I was born on Bentinck Island at a place on the Northern side called Bilmee

ARONE MEEKS | 'Blu II' | c.2019 | Monoprint | Paper: 800 x 610 mm Northern Peninsula Area Paper size: 400 x 300At 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.