MEEKS, ARONE RAYMOND (1957-)

"Rainbow Serpent & Brolga Dreaming" (c.1980)
oil on canvas laid on board
131 x 107cm
signed on verso
*private collection, Sydney
 
Arone Raymond Meeks is a well respected Indigenous Australian artist. He studied extensively in Sydney and later in India and France. An Aboriginal painter, illustrator and printmaker he has exhibited widely since 1978. Meeks designed the 1986 Australia Day stamp. His work is represented in the Australian National Gallery, state galleries of Western Australia and New South Wales and in the National Gallery of Japan.