Arone Raymond Meeks

Aboriginal Australian | 1957 - 2021

Arone Raymond Meeks was an Aboriginal Australian Indigenous Art artist who was born in 1957.

How much does an Arone Raymond Meeks cost?

Arone Raymond Meeks's work has been offered at auction multiple times, with realized prices of up to 6,535 USD for paintings, and 268 USD for prints & graphic arts.

What is Arone Raymond Meeks's most expensive painting?

Since 2013 the record price for this artist at auction is 6,535 USD for WATERHOLE - PORTAL, sold at Cooee Art Marketplace - Paddington in 2022.

Numerous key galleries and museums such as Megalo Gallery have featured Arone Raymond Meeks's work in the past.

Arone Raymond Meeks in the news

Arone Raymond Meeks has been featured in articles for The Hindu, Sydney Morning Herald and Village Voice. The most recent article is Australian Indigenous Art That Questions Colonial History Is on Focus in This Online Exhibit written for The Hindu in November 2020. The artist died in 2021.

Artist's alternative names: Arone Meeks, Arone R. Meeks

At Auction

Notable Lots

An abstract black-and-white print featuring a central figure suspended by wires against a textured, grainy background.

Birthole c. 2000 , ca. 2000

By Arone Raymond Meeks

-47%

below mid-estimate

A surreal black-ink etching of a figure contorted inside a large, rounded vessel against a pale background.

Five Guardians , 1997

By Arone Raymond Meeks

-67%

below mid-estimate

A stylized, glittery sculpture of a high-heeled shoe with a hand emerging from the heel.

Transcending Bush Figure 2, c.1989 , ca. 1989

By Arone Raymond Meeks

-37%

below mid-estimate

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Recent Auction Results

A framed woodcut print depicting a surreal night scene with a ghostly figure emerging from waves under a starry sky.

Moon Bay

By Arone Raymond Meeks

+4%

above mid-estimate

Webb's

A black-and-white graphic print featuring three distinct, stylized figures side by side.

Bush Figures , 1988

By Arone Raymond Meeks

-34%

below mid-estimate

Gibson's Auctions

A black ink print featuring a skeletal figure holding a fish while a spider floats above.

Argoonie Doowi (The Catching of the Dream Spirit , 1987

By Arone Raymond Meeks

+154%

above mid-estimate

Raffan Kelaher & Thomas

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Past Exhibitions

Wish You Were Here: Megalo Artists In Residence 2013-2023

Megalo Gallery

Kingston | Australia

May 20, 2023 - Jul 01, 2023

The Return of the Archive

Megalo Gallery

Kingston | Australia

Sep 01, 2020 - Nov 30, 2020

Artnow FNQ 2019

Cairns Art Gallery

Cairns | Australia

Dec 13, 2019 - Feb 02, 2020

VIEW 5 EXHIBITIONS

Articles

Australian Indigenous Art That Questions Colonial History Is on Focus in This Online Exhibit

The Hindu Nov 12, 2020

Australian indigenous art that responds to climate change and questions the imbalance between written colonial and oral aboriginal history reaches India through an online exhibition.

Review: Arone Meeks: Beyond the Blue: Unbroken at Megalo

Sydney Morning Herald May 19, 2017

Arone Meeks was born in Sydney in 1957, as a lovechild of Valerie Meeks, a KuKu Miidiji woman from Laura in Far North Queensland and a Spanish man travelling with a circus.

Welcome to Hollywooster

Village Voice Mar 12-Mar 18, 2008

Welcome to Hollywooster Best in Show Michel Gondry Deitch Projects 18 Wooster Street Through March 22 Deceived by Deitch Projects` façade, which