Grass Seed Dreaming Medium:Acrylic on Linen continuing in the footsteps of

continuing in the footsteps of her late grandmother and mother in telling the Seven Sisters story and how it relates to kapi tjukula (many rock holes)

As is the case with a number of other older ladies of the desert her paintings demonstrate one of the last remaining links with women's ceremonial knowledge

Through her art

Barbara describes the journey of the Tingari women who

She particularly enjoys painting with her mother as it is an opportunity for her and her mother to share their Jukurrpa stories

Grass Seed Dreaming Medium:Acrylic on Linen continuing in the footsteps ofIn 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