Grass Seed Dreaming Medium:Acrylic on Linen and Grass Seed

and Grass Seed

She was the daughter of Irish station owner Jack Weir and Minnie Pwerle

Northern Territory (referred to as Unupurna in her local language)

Concentric circles are often used to represent the ‘jintiparnta’ (desert truffles) that the women have collected

Working in synthetic polymer on linen or canvas

Grass Seed Dreaming Medium:Acrylic on Linen and Grass SeedIn 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