Grass Seed Dreaming Medium:Acrylic on Linen inherited from her father’s side

inherited from her father’s side

She is now a Gija language teacher at the school and an artist at the Warmun Art Centre

Margaret has been a finalist twice in the prestigious Wynne Prize at the Art Gallery of New South Wales

where Alice had no family

Margaret Nangala Gallagher was born in 1967 in Alice Springs Hospital

Grass Seed Dreaming Medium:Acrylic on Linen inherited from her father’s sideIn 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