ARONE MEEKS | 'Laura Healing' | 2011 | Screenprint | Paper: 760 x 560 mmAt 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.

The light wavelengths either cancel each other out or combine and the refracted light is seen as color

Areas were cleared of grass and scrub with the use of stone and clam axes

PETER B  MORRISON  | 'Cooktown Orchid' | 2025 | Drypoint etching on Hahnemuhle 300 gsm in charbonnel ink | H 405 x W 535 mm

Nancy Cowan lives in Kennedy in North Queensland

The work travels upon a canoe indicated by the woven mat at the bottom

It is terrifying

he began investigating rainforest shield designs in museum collections and anthropological texts

Langauge: Djabugay (Tjapukai)

Have you ever danced so long and so wild that you fell through yourself into a place where there is nothing looking back

For a long time I would dream about the barramundi

The book reveals how art centres play a critical role within Indigenous communities

with a stamp marking each collection