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...
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 religion at its heart. Here he depicts the site of Mantamuta situated in the north of traditional Spinifex Lands. This site forms part of the Minyma Kaanka Tjukurpa (Crow Woman Creation Line) and follows the movement of a crow as she traverses different sites across the Spinifex Lands. Here at Mantamuta the crow women encounters a man who offers her kaka (cooked game) and as she begins to digest the meat she realises that something is terribly wrong and she is eating her missing child. These are creation beings who shaped the landscape as they moved through it leaving the religion etched in monolithic physical reminders of their power and presence.