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. These first beings 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.

Here, Fred has depicted the significant site of Tjanputa situated in the northeast of traditional Spinifex Lands. This site holds the Wati Kutjara Tjukurpa (Two Men Creation Line), a far reaching narrative that follows the movement of two men, a sand goanna and a black nosed monitor lizard as they traverse the Spinifex Country. Fred describes walking to and drinking from these sacred water sources with a familiarity that a continuing connection to this land brings.