Arone produces paintings, sculpture and prints
that express a passion for country, spirituality, sexuality and
politics.
His path is one that redefines
his connections through art mediums. The spiritual is actualised
through art and his response is one of ‘working it through’ an intuitive process. Arone
is able to express a unique spiritual response to country that
has a harmony in connecting disparate worlds.
His subjects are
sourced in nature and represent a cultural responsibility with
an expression of contemporary art.
Arone’s indigenous links
are with the Kokomidiji of Cape York, around Laura, the site of
renowned rock art galleries filled with graceful drawings of quinkans.
Laura is known as a place of Aboriginal magic and sorcery; it is
also the location for the biannual Angnarra Aboriginal Dance Festival.
Walking through this country has a palpable effect on Arone. He
feels a physical reaction to sacred country that helps forge relationships
with kinship, a sense of self and ‘renewing the dreaming’.
Arone’s art is not governed by the same barriers and protocols
that govern traditional Aboriginal art, but is placed in the context
of the contemporary urban.