Arone Meeks
Arone Meeks is a Kuku Midigi man, currently residing in Cairns. He grew up near El Arish, in far north Queensland, although his country is the area around Laura, Cape York. He completed a Bachelor of Visual Arts at the City Art Institute in Sydney in 1984 and has forged an impressive national and international career since. Meeks' practice includes painting, sculpture, drawing and public art commissions as well as linoprints, etchings and monoprints. His work employs both traditional images and themes arising out of his concern with the issue of land rights.
A former member of the Boomalli urban Aboriginal artist’s co-operative, he won an Australia Council fellowship to study in Paris in 1989 and went on to exhibit throughout Europe and North and South America. His work appears in many national and international collections, both public and private. In Australia, he is represented in many public collections, including the National Gallery of Australia and the Queensland Art Gallery. His pieces are also represented internationally in collections in Canada, the United States, France and Japan.
Solo Exhibitions
2010 Art Mob Tasmania, Cross Currents,Australian and Oceanic Arts Port Douglas,Mooree Plains Regional Gallery
2009 Cell arts space, Cairns,Canopy Ar t Space,Cairns
2007 Blue Lung Breath, Australian and Oceanic Art, Port Douglas
White Coral Spawning, RM Gallery, Brisbane
2006 Now Time Portal to a Dream, Kick Arts, Cairns
2005 New Directions, Framed Gallery, Darwin
2004 Artist Collection, Tanks Art Centre, Cairns
2003 Saltwater Story, Cairns Regional Gallery
1999 Cycad Dreaming, Tanks Art Centre, Cairns
Flinders University, Feast Festival, Adelaide
Black Crane, Lizard of OZ, Taos, New Mexico, USA
Moore Regional Gallery, Armidale
1992 La Rece, Australian Embassy, Paris
1989 Paris Dreaming, Australian Embassy, Paris
1988 – 2001 Consequent Solo Shows Coo-ee Aboriginal Art Gallery, Sydney
1988 5th Festival of Pacific Arts, Capricornian Gallery, Cairns
1978 Ensueno, Buenos Aires, Argentina
Arone 2 Australian Embassy, Paris
The below artwork was featured in the Indigenous Law Bulletin July / August 2011 Volume 7 Issue 25.
