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Open a larger version of the following image in a popup: Fred Grant, Mutji Mutji, 2022

Fred Grant Australian, Pitjantjatjara, b. 1943

Mutji Mutji, 2022
acrylic on linen
137 x 90 cm
20-12
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Fred Grant loves to traverse large tracts of Spinifex Country, painting the well-known paths of a lifetime of wanderings. Some of these, the early years of Fred’s life, were from...
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Fred Grant loves to traverse large tracts of Spinifex Country, painting the well-known paths of a lifetime of wanderings. Some of these, the early years of Fred’s life, were from necessity such was a nomadic life lived in earnest with other spiritual peers and kin, as had been the way for some 40,000 plus years before. This was as much an education in religion as survival in an arid terrain, with the surrounding mapped landscape able to be read as a testament to the power of creation beings. Here Fred depicts the site of Mutji Mutji that forms part of the Wati Ngatatjri Tjukurpa (Giant Man Creation Line) that follows a giant man as he traverses parts pf the vast Spinifex Lands. These are creation beings who not only shaped the environment that Fred depicts but gave it a spiritual and moral compass upon which a people could thrive. It is with this, unparalleled oral creationist history, that Fred is able facilitate these journeys into a two dimensional framework.
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