Ned Grant

Ned Grant was born near Papatatjara in the north-east quadrant of Spinifex Country in the Great Victoria Desert, WA. During the Aboriginal Evangelical Mission (AEM) sweep through Spinifex in the late 1950’s Ned was taken into Cundeelee Mission with older brother, Ted (dec) and younger brother Fred (dec). Ned was a nyiingka (segregated bush boy) when he came in and was inducted into Men’s Law in the ranges country north-west of Laverton.

Ned, a senior man by the early 1980’s, helped drive the return to Spinifex country. Today Ned is the main ceremonial leader of the Tjintu (sun side) of Spinifex society. Ned has been painting with the Spinifex Art Project since its beginning in 1997. His works have been included in major exhibitions nationally and internationally. Ned was one of 17 men who collaboratively painted their particular states, which merged together, formed the Men’s Native Title painting. Ned continues to paint his “run” - the area around where he was born and subsequently lost his umbilical cord.

Solo Exhibitions
2018 The Art of Fred and Ned Grant, Raft Art Space, Alice Springs. NT.

Group Exhibitions
2025 Rawa Tjunguku - working together a long time, Red Dot Fine Art, Singapore.
2025 Tiny and Precious, Agency Projects, Melbourne, VIC.
2024 Spinifex People: Art and stories from Pila Nguru, WA Museum Boola Bardip, Perth, WA.
2024 Sovereigns of the Memory, Aboriginal Signature Estrangin Gallery, Brussels.
2024 From the Spinifex Country, Aboriginal and Pacific Art, Sydney NSW.
2024 Pila: the Space Between the Dunes, Salon Art Projects, Darwin, NT.
2024 Spinifex 2024 - Short Street Gallery, Broome, WA.
2024 Uwankara Utulu - All Together, DLan Contemporary New York, USA.
2023 Sun and Shadow: Art of the Spinifex People, Japingka Gallery, Fremantle WA.
2023 New Work from the Spinifex Arts Project, D’Lan Contemporary, Sydney Contemporary, NSW.
2023 Sun and Shadow - Art of the Spinifex People, Raft Artspace, Alice Springs, NT
2023 Spinifex Country - Paintings from Spinifex Arts Project, D’Lan Contemporary, Melbourne, VIC.
2023 Artists of Tjuntjuntjara, Aboriginal and Pacific Arts, Sydney, NSW.
2023 Voir l’Invisible, Museum d’Angoulême, in conjunction with Aboriginal Signature • Estrangin Gallery and supported by the Australian Embassy in France, the French Embassy in Australia, Angoulême, France. 
2022 Living Water, Raft Artspace, Alice Springs, NT.
2022 Short Street Gallery Broome, WA.
2022 Spinifex Arts Project 25 year anniversary show, Vivien Anderson Gallery, Melbourne, VIC.
2022 Aluni - Resonance - Aboriginal Signature Estrangin Gallery, Brussels, Belgium.
2021 Spinifex Wati Tjuta, Aboriginal and Pacific Arts, Sydney, NSW.
2021 DesertMob 2021, Araluen Art Centre, Alice Springs, NT.
2021 38th Telstra National Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Art Awards, Museum and Art Gallery of NT. Darwin, NT.
2020 Spinifex Artists - On Our Country, Japingka Gallery Fremantle, WA.
2019 “Wati: Men from Spinifex” Aboriginal and pacific Arts, Sydney, NSW.
2019 36th Telstra National Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Art Awards, Museum and Art Gallery of NT. Darwin, NT.
2019 Explosion, Aboriginal Signature • Estrangin Gallery, Brussels, Belgium.
2018 Convoking the Genesis - Eurantica - Aboriginal Signature Estrangin Gallery - Brussels.
2017 Wuste - Meer - Schpfermythen ArtKelch Gallery presented at The Rautenstrauch-Joest Museum Cologne, Germany.
2017 Spinifex Arts 20th Anniversary, Japingka Gallery, Fremantle. WA.
2017 ‘Gems from the remote Deserts’ Aboriginal Signature Estrangin Gallery, at the Parcours des Mondes, Paris.
2017 Spinifex Ascendent Short Street Gallery, Broome, WA.
2017 Farben der Wüste, ARTKELCH at Teppichhaus Jordan, Waldshut-Tiengen, Germany.
2016 Pila Nguratja - In Spinifex Country Vivien Anderson Gallery, Melbourne, VIC.
2016 33rd Telstra National Aboriginal & Torres Strait Art Award (Mens Collaborative). Museums and Art Gallery NT. Darwin, NT.
2016 Rawa Nyinanyi- Unbroken. Outstation Gallery, Darwin. NT.
2016 Exposition Spinifex Arts Project, Aboriginal Signature Estrangin Fine Art, Belgium
2016 Tjungutja – Art of the Spinifex Collaborative, Redot Fine Art Gallery, Singapore.
2016 Purungu und Narrupa, ARTKELCH at KUNSTWERK, Eberdingen-Nussdorf, Germany.
2016 Geisterstunde bei ARTKELCH, ARTKELCH, Freiburg, Germany.
2015 Spinifex Arts Project 2015, Aboriginal and Pacific Arts, Sydney, NSW.
2015 Tarnanthi - Festival of Comtemporary Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Art, Art Gallery of South Australia, Adelaide, SA.
2015 Kulunypa- selected small works from the Spinifex Arts Project, Outstation Gallery, Darwin. NT.
2015 Ausblick – Einblick, ARTKELCH, Freiburg, Germany.
2015 Wo das Stachelkopfgras wächst, ARTKELCH, Freiburg, Germany.
2014 Spinifex Artists, Japingka Gallery, Fremantle WA.
2014 Tjuntjuntjara Nguratja- Tjuntjuntjara is home Harvey Art Projects, Sun Valley, Idaho, USA
2014 Tjuntjuntjara - recent works from Spinifex Country Shorts Street Gallery, Broome, Western Australia
2014 Spinifex Tjukurpa ReDot Gallery, Singapore.
2014 Spinifex Arts Project 2014, Vivien Anderson Gallery, Melbourne, VIC.
2014 Pila- Spinifex Land Outstation Gallery, Parap, Darwin. NT.
2014 Australian Contemporary Indigenous Art 111 Chiaroscuro Contemporary Art in association with Vivien Anderson Gallery, Santa Fe, USA.
2013 Spinifex Arts Project, ARTKELCH at art Karlsruhe 2013, Karlsruhe, Germany.
2013 A Lesson in Pitjantjatjara, ARTKELCH Collectors Lounge at kptec, Schorndorf, Germany.
2013 The Wild Ones Raft Artplace, Alice Springs, NT.
2013 Spinifex Arts Project ArtKelch,Freiburg,Munich,Hamburg, Bodensee, Lake Constance, Germany.
2013 Kuwaritja - New Works of the Spinifex People Outstation Gallery, Darwin, Northern Territory.
2013 DesertMob Araluen Gallery, Alice Springs, NT.
2013 30th Telstra National Aboriginal & Torres Strait Art Award (Mens Collaborative). Museums and Art Gallery NT. Darwin, NT.
2012 Tupun Nguranguru – People of the Sandhill Country 45 Downstairs Gallery, Vivien Anderson, Melbourne.
2012 Spinifex - People of the Sun and Shadow John Curtin Gallery, Curtin University, Perth, WA.
2011 Spinifex Artists, Japingka Gallery, Fremantle WA.
2011 Living Water- Contemporary Art of the Far Western Desert, National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne, VIC.
2010 Spinifex Arts Project 2010, Vivien Anderson Gallery, Melbourne, VIC.
2010 Spinifex Artists, Japingka Gallery, Fremantle, WA.
2010 Desert Mob, Araluen Galleries, Alice Springs, NT.
2010 Desert Country Art Gallery of South Australia, Adelaide, SA. and National Tour.
2010 Australian Contemporary Indigenous Art Now, Chiaroscuro Gallery, Santa Fe USA in association with Vivien Anderson Gallery, Melbourne, VIC.
2009 Tracking the Wati Kutjara Coo-ee Gallery, Sydney, NSW.
2009 Spinifex Artists Ab-Original Gallery, Austria.
2009 Spinifex Artists 2009 Japingka Gallery, Fremantle, WA.
2009 Desert Mob Araluen Art Centre, Alice Springs, NT.
2008 Spinifex Artists Recent Work Short St Gallery, Broome, WA.
2008 Kapi Ninti: Knowing Water Knowing Country, Vivien Anderson Gallery, Melbourne, VIC.
2008 Desert Mob Araluen Art Centre, Alice Springs, NT.
2007 Ten Years On Japingka Gallery, Fremantle, WA.
2007 Seattle Arts Museum, Seattle.
2007 New Spinifex Works Short St Gallery, Broome, WA.
2007 Desert Mob Araluen Art Centre, Alice Springs, NT.
2007 Best of the Best Framed Gallery Darwin, NT.
2006 Spinifex - New Works Marshall Arts, Adelaide, SA.
2006 Flinders Lane Gallery, Melbourne, VIC.
2006 Desert Mob Araluen Art Centre, Alice Springs, NT.
2006 Art of the Spinifex People Japingka Gallery, Perth, WA.
2005 Spinifex Mob Coo-ee Arts, Sydney, NSW.
2005 Spinifex Artists Rebecca Hossack Gallery, London, England.
2005 Law and Land Aboriginal Art Museum, Utrecht, The Netherlands.
2005 Desert Mob Araluen Art Centre, Alice Springs, NT.
2004 Spinifex Arts Project Harbour House Gallery, Zurich, Switzerland.
2004 Colour Power - Aboriginal Art post 1984 National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne, VIC.
2003 Spinifex Paintings Raintree Gallery, Darwin, NT.
2003 Spinifex Arts Project 2003 Span Galleries, Melbourne, VIC.
2002 Putitja Nguru - Art of the Spinifex People Japingka Gallery, Fremantle, WA.
2002 Native Title Business – Contemporary Indigenous Art, Australian National Tour.
2001 Supreme Court of the Northern Territory, Darwin, NT.
2001 Spiral Arm Gallery, Canberra. ACT.
2001 Flinders Arts Museum, Adelaide, SA.
2001 Broken Hill City Regional Art Gallery, Broken Hill, NSW.
2001 All About Art Alcaston Gallery, Melbourne, VIC.
2000 Pila Nguru - Art and Song of the Spinifex People Western Australian Museum, Perth, WA and national tour.

Awards
2019 Finalist 36th Telstra National Aboriginal & Torres Strait Islander Art Award, Museums and Art Galleries, Darwin, NT.
2016 Finalist (Mens Collaborative) 33rd Telstra National Aboriginal & Torres Strait Islander Art Award, Museums and Art Galleries, Darwin, NT.
2013 Finalist (Mens Collaborative) 30th Telstra National Aboriginal & Torres Strait Islander Art Award, Museums and Art Galleries, Darwin, NT.

Collections
THE ART GALLERY OF NEW SOUTH WALES, SYDNEY, NSW (MENS COLLABORATIVE)
THE BRITISH MUSEUM, LONDON, ENGLAND.(MENS COLLABORATIVE)
THE CORRIGAN COLLECTION, AUSTRALIA (MENS COLLABORATIVE)
W. & V. MCGEOCH COLLECTION, MELBOURNE, VIC.