Ned Grant

Overview
Ned Grant is an Indigenous Aboriginal artist, painter, and traditional owner of a large area of Spinifex country in Western Australia, who has been painting with the Spinifex Arts Project since 1997 and who is highly regarded globally, currently being exh

Ned Grant is a senior artist and lawman from the Spinifex country in the Great Victoria Deseret, Western Australia. Born at Mulapula, in 1941, he was moved off his traditional lands in the 1950s, due to the nuclear testing at Maralinga.
Although relocated to Cundeelee Mission, he and his family maintained a semi-nomadic life between the mission and surrounding bush lands.

 

Grant returned to Spinifex Country in the early 1980s, and began painting with the Spinifex Arts Project in 1997. As the principal custodian of many important ceremonies for Tjintu (sun side) of the Spinifex people, he collaborated on the ‘Men’s Native Title’ painting which helped gain legal recognition for the Spinifex people’s land rights.

 

Grant has continued to assert his connection to the ceremonies and stories of his traditional lands, both through his own paintings, and further collaborative projects. Examples of his work are held in many national and international collections, including the British Museum, London, Seattle Art Museum, Seattle; Museum Funf Kontinente, Munich; National Gallery of Australia, Canberra; Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney.

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