Grass Seed Dreaming Medium:Acrylic on Linen linear designs and bold

linear designs and bold

ca 300 kms north west of Alice Springs in Central Australia

The practice of hunting and gathering bush tucker—native foods—remains important today

Whilst at Papunya

She subsequently gained recognition as one of Australia’s most prominent Indigenous artists

Grass Seed Dreaming Medium:Acrylic on Linen linear designs and boldIn many of Barbara Weirs paintings, long, tapering lines overlap gracefully to represent a grass once abundant at Utopia before cattle grazing was introduced in the early 20th century. Its botanical name is Portulaca oleracea. For thousands of years, this grass has been important to Aboriginal people because its small black seeds can be ground into flour. Rather than painting the seeds, Weir depicts the grass itself. Her colours show its natural