'Fetish' by Arone Meeks
Born:
1957
Region: North East Queensland
Medium:
Linocut prints, etchings,
carved and painted wooden sculpture, carving, acrylic and oil paint on
canvas, lacquered
2006
Now Time – Portal to a Dream, KickArts Contemporary Arts Cairns
2005
New Directions, Framed Gallery Darwin
2004
Artist Collection, TANKS Art Centre Cairns
2003
Salt Water Story, Cairns Regional Gallery
2000
Towards a New Dreaming, Cooee Aboriginal Art Gallery, Sydney.
1999
Cycad Dreaming, Solo Exhibition, The Tanks,Cairns FNQ.
Fetish - Flinders University Art Museum,Feast Festival, Adelaide.
1997
Common Ground, including collaborative works from Santa Fe, Drill
Hall ANU.
1996
What Now - A New Direction, Adrian Newstead Gallery, Sydney.
1995
Arone, Le Cake,Cairns, FNQ.
Black Crane, Lizard of Oz, Taos, New Mexico.
2006
Black Pink & Delicious, Madigrass Boomali Sydney
2005
Homefront, KickArts Contemporary Arts Cairns
Menunder, Gallery 53 Cairns
Works on Paper, Bowen Galleries Wellington New Zealand
2004
FNQ Souvenir, KickArts Contemporary Arts Cairns toured to:
Gab Titui Thursday Island
Gallery Hinchinbrook Ingham
New Land Gallery Port Adelaide
Millicent Gallery South Australia
Hervey Bay
Regional Gallery
Recent Work, Bath Street Gallery Auckland New Zealand
Postcard Show, Cairns Regional Gallery
Glare, KickArts Insider Exhibition, KickArts Contemporary Arts Cairns
NADIOC Regional
Exhibition, TANKS Art Centre
Touch of Mandela, Collaborative work with Nelson Mandela
World & Cultural Heritage, International Group Exhibition with Global
Culture
Centre of Japan, KickArts Contemporary Arts Cairns
Hitting On & Kicking Off, KickArts inaugural exhibition for KickArts
Contemporary Arts in the new Centre of Contemporary Arts, Cairns
2003
Story Place, Queensland Art Gallery
2002
Local Colour, Local Livers, Cairns Regional Gallery
Shade of Pink, Manly Art Gallery & Museum
Accommodating Differences, TAMKS Art Centre Cairns & Centre of
Contemporary Arts New Zealand
2000
Journeying the Dame Land, Cairns Regional Gallery
1999
Body, Group Show, The Tanks, Cairns FNQ.
Meeks and Company,Mardi Gras Exhibition, Cooee Aboriginal Art
Gallery, Sydney.
Love Magic Group Show, SH Ervin Gallery, National Trust, Sydney.
Private Commission, Synergy Telecommunications, Germany.
Commission, Cairns Convention Centre, Sculptural Frieze, 8 panels.
Respect, Group Show, Institute of Modern Art, Brisbane.
16th NATSI Art Award, MAGNT, Darwin
1998
Large commissioned work, Bulletin Place, Sydney.
Selected work, Blake Prize for Religious Art, Sydney.
1997
Children’s Art Exhibition touring Italy, Germay, France to 1999,
Ashton Scholastic.
1996
Tribal Metaphysics - a Meeting Place,Grosvenor Place,Sydney
Collaboration with Liz Gallie,Cairns Regional Gallery, FNQ.
Cairns International Airport Commission.8 Panels, 56 metre Sculptural
Frieze.
1994
Malu Urul, National Maritime Museum, Sydney 1995 Local Colours,
Cairns Regional Gallery, FNQ.
Trade Routes, Moree Regional Gallery and Armidale Aboriginal Keeping
Place.
1993
Ten years of acquisitions, from ANU collection, Drill Hall Gallery
ACT.
Commitments, MOCA, Brisbane 1993.
1990
Painted Ship, Painted Oceans, S. H. Ervin Gallery, Sydney.
Balance 1990: views, visions, influences, QAG, Brisbane.
1989
A Koori Perspective, Artspace, Sydney.
Aboriginal Art: The Continuing Tradition, National Gallery of
Australia, Canberra.
1988
Craft Council exhibition, Sydney.
Aboriginal Artists Gallery, Sydney.
Perc Tucker Gallery, Townsville.
Capricorn Galleries, Port Douglas, Queensland.
Defacto Apartheid, Performance Space, Sydney.
ANCAAA and Boomalli, Boomalli Ko-op, Sydney.
1987
Cooper Gallery, Sydney.
Dalkuna Mnunuway Nhe Rom, Foreign Exchange Gallery, Armadale,
Victoria.
Art and Aboriginality, Aspex Gallery, Portsmouth, UK.
Aboriginal Australian views in print and poster, travelling
exhibition, Print Council of Australia.
Coo-ee Emporium, Sydney.
Australian Geographics.
1986
Urban Koories, Willoughby Workshop Arts Centre, Sydney.
1984
Koori Art ’84, Artspace, Sydney.
The First National Aboriginal Art Award Exhibition, Museum and Art
Gallery of the Northern Territory, Darwin.
1983
Contemporary Aboriginal Art, Bondi Community Pavilion, Sydney.
1982
Aboriginal Week Exhibition, AGNSW.
1981
Artists for Aboriginal Land Rights, Ampira, Sydney.
1980
Seymour Centre, Sydney.
1978
Travelling exhibition in Germany: Munich, Dusseldorf and Kline.
2005
MSFA Gabba, Brisbane State Collection
2003 Cairns Base Hospital, State Collection
2000 Cairns Convention Centre, State Collection
1999 Cairns Convention Centre, State Collection
Collections
Artbank, Sydney.
Art Gallery of Intro, Canada.
Art Gallery of New South Wales.
Art Gallery of South Australia, Adelaide.
Art Gallery of Western Australia, Perth.
Australian National Gallery, Canberra.
Australian Museum, Sydney.
Australian National Museum, Canberra.
Australia Post.
Central Collection, Australian National University, Canberra.
Flinders University Art Museum, Adelaide.
Institute of American Indian Art Santa Fe.
Kelton Foundation, Los Angeles, USA.
Massachusetts College of Art, Boston.
Nationale Bibliotech de Paris.
National Gallery of Australia, Canberra.
National Gallery of Japan.
National Maritime Museum, Darling Harbour, Sydney.
National Museum of Australia, Canberra.
Oodgeroo Collection Qld. University of Technology.
Powerhouse Museum, Sydney.
Queensland Art Gallery, Brisbane.
Robert Holmes a Court Collection, Perth.
The Simons Foundation, Vancouver, Canada.
University of NSW.
University of Qld, OTC Australia.
Private Collections, Japan, France, USA, Argentina, Australia.