Artiste : Fred Grant

Titre de l'œuvre : Kupanya

Format : 200 x 137 cm

Provenance et certificat : centre d'art aborigène du Spinifex Art Project

Référence de cette peinture : 21-78

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Explications pour cette œuvre :

Fred Grant (1943) 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 the intimacy of a landscape with a powerful religion at its heart. Here he depicts the country associated with Minyma Tjuta Tjukurpa (Many Women Creation Line) at the significant site of Pirilyi.

This is a women's creation line that follows the journey of a group of women (seven sisters) who traverse the Spinifex Lands and beyond whilst evading the lecherous pursuit of a lustful man, Nyiru who wishes the eldest women for his wife. These are creation beings and as such shaped the landscape as they moved through it.

His artworks are in the following collections :
Harriett & Richard England Collection
National Gallery Of Australia, Canberra, Act (Mens Collaborative)
Seattle Art Museum, Seattle, Usa. (Mens Collaborative)
The Corrigan Collection, Australia (Mens Collaborative)
The Lepley Collection, Perth, Western Australia.
W. & V. Mcgeoch Collection, Melbourne, Vic.
Queensland Art Gallery Of Modern Art, Brisbane, Qld.
The Art Gallery Of New South Wales, Sydney, Nsw
Art Gallery Of South Australia, Adelaide, South Australia (Mens Collaborative)