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  • § FRED GRANT (born 1943) (Language group: Pitjantjatjara) Tjaltunya 2021 synthetic polymer paint on linen 137 x 110cm
    Mar. 18, 2025

    § FRED GRANT (born 1943) (Language group: Pitjantjatjara) Tjaltunya 2021 synthetic polymer paint on linen 137 x 110cm

    Est: $4,000 - $6,000

    § FRED GRANT (born 1943) (Language group: Pitjantjatjara) Tjaltunya 2021 synthetic polymer paint on linen inscribed verso with artist's name and Spinifex Arts Project cat. no. 21-249 137 x 110cm PROVENANCE: The Artist, painted at Tjuntjuntjara, Western Australia Spinifex Arts Project, Western Australia (accompanied by a copy of the certificate of authenticity) Private collection, Melbourne OTHER NOTES: "Fred Grant knows the boundless sandhills, the endless skies and extensive forests of Spinifex Country. He's walked the rich cultural fabric that embraces his land wherever he looks and he has intimate knowledge of the life sustaining water sources that are its foundation of survival in an arid environment. Fred paints with the passive authority of someone that knows they belong to intimacy of a landscape with a powerful devotion at its heart. Here he depicts the site of Tuwan, situated in the heart of Spinifex Country. Tjaltunya holds the powerful Wati Kutjara Tjukurpa (Two Men Creation Line). This is a far reaching narrative that follows two brothers: a black nosed monitor lizard and a sand goanna - as they journey through Spinifex Country. These are creation beings who shaped the landscape as they moved through it leaving the guiding story etched in monolithic physical reminders of their power and presence." As stated on a copy of the Spinifex Arts certificate of authenticity © Fred Grant/Copyright Agency, 2025

    Leonard Joel
  • FRED GRANT, TJALTU, 2017
    Mar. 26, 2024

    FRED GRANT, TJALTU, 2017

    Est: $20,000 - $30,000

    FRED GRANT born 1946 TJALTU, 2017 synthetic polymer paint on canvas 199.0 x 228.0 cm bears inscription verso: artist's name, date and Spinifex Arts Project cat. 17-307 PROVENANCE Spinifex Arts Project, Tjuntjuntjara, Western Australia RAFT Artspace, Alice Springs, Northern Territory Private collection, New South Wales EXHIBITED Fred and Ned Grant, RAFT Artspace, Alice Springs, 8 – 29 September 2018 Truth: Then Now Everywhen, University of Newcastle Gallery, New South Wales, 1 July – 3 September 2022 This painting is accompanied by a certificate of authenticity from the Spinifex Arts Project. ESSAY Born Nguramuta in 1943 at Ukatjatjara, located in north-east Spinifex Country in Western Australia,  Fred Grant lived a traditional life on country with his elder brothers Ned (Kungaru) and Ted. Just prior to undergoing initiation in their early teenage years, the brothers were located by missionaries and government officials and transported 600 kilometres west to Cundalee Mission, close to Kalgoorlie. Removed from their country due to an enduring drought and the disturbance of traditional life as a result of the Maralinga atomic bomb testing and the rocket testing at Woomera, Fred subsequently went ‘through’ the Law with older brother and ngalungku (contemporary initiate), Ned, in the ranges north of Laverton. In the early 1990s, Ned and Fred finally returned to their homelands, some fifty years later, and were instrumental in the Spinifex land claim which was granted in the year 2000. Fed Grant was married to fellow artist, Carlene West, until her death in 2021, and now resides on country at Tjuntjuntjara Fred Grant is the custodian of Kulpara, (the Magpie), who is closely associated with the Wati Kutjara Tjukurpa (Two Men story) – a story whose influence spreads widely across Pitjantjatjara, Ngaanyatjarra and Pintupi lands. As the accompanying certificate explains, Tjaltu, 2017 is typical of Fred’s iconographical maps of Country, showing a ‘major site that forms part of the Wati Kutjara Tjukurpa (two Men creation line). This is an epic story that traverses vast amounts of Spinifex Country as it follows two brothers in their search for wives. Mulya maru (black nosed monitor) and tinka (sand goanna) are the creation beings that metamorphosise between animal and man as they shape the landscape, to leave physical and moral reminders of their presence. Here at Tjaltu, are two rock holes representing the brothers and their existence still today. Fred has painted the many sites and travelling tracks that they passed and stopped at on their way to this site.’1 1. See the accompanying Spinifex Arts Project certificate of authenticity.   CRISPIN GUTTERIDGE © Fred Grant/Copyright Agency 2024

    Deutscher and Hackett
  • Spinifex Arts Project
    Jun. 16, 2015

    Spinifex Arts Project

    Est: $1,500 - $2,500

    Mirramirratjara, 2006 acrylic on canvas, inscribed, titled, numbered and dated verso 'Mirramirratjara, 2006, Spinifex Arts Project, Fred Grant, Ned Grant and Roy Underwood'

    Shapiro Auctioneers
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