Lot 100

Spinifex Arts Project, Western Australia (accompanied by the certificate of authenticity)
Private collection, Melbourne

"Ned Grant follows the wata (tree roots) underground as they search for life-affirming water sources. He sees them intertwined in the fabric of the significant sites he paints, depicting them as metamorphic beings from creation or as life-saving water catchments in times of drought. This linking with flora permeates all of Ned's work as he identifies with the spiritual connection the trees have always possessed across the lands and through eons. Here he brings the significant site of Papatatjara into view with nearby Pikakara and Milpiltjara. This country holds the Maku Tjuta Tjukurpa (Witchetty Grub Creation Line), followed as the Maku traverse these sites. These creation beings shape the landscape as they move through it, leaving behind not only the physical environment but the moral framework on which spiritual life can form. This mapped environment and the movement of the first beings is ritually performed with song as part of the oral transference of culture."

As stated on the Spinifex Arts Project certificate of authenticity

© Ned Grant/Copyright Agency, 2026