ARONE RAYMOND MEEKS, Untitled, 1999

ARONE RAYMOND MEEKS Kuku Yalanji language, 1957 - 2021 Untitled, 1999 acrylic on canvas 122 x 91 cm; 127.5 x 97 cm (framed) signed front bottom right ‘Arone Raymond Meeks ‘99' PROVENANCE The Artist, Sydney, New South Wales Private Collection, New South Wales EXHIBITED Cycad Dreaming, 1999, Tanks Arts Centre, Cairns, Queensland Kuku Midiji artist Arone Meeks was a significant figure in contemporary Australian art and the first Indigenous Australian artist to undertake a residency at the Cité Internationale des Arts in Paris. In the years that followed, he exhibited widely throughout Europe and North America, establishing an international profile alongside his practice in Australia. Meeks worked across painting, drawing, printmaking and illustration, developing a distinctive visual language informed by Country, cultural knowledge and lived experience. His acclaimed children's book Enora and the Black Crane received the UNICEF Ezra Jack Keats Award in 1991. He later settled in Cairns, where he became an influential figure in the arts of Far North Queensland, contributing significantly to the region's cultural landscape and mentoring a younger generation of emerging artists. © ARONE RAYMOND JOHN MEEKS / Copyright Agency, 2026

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