Grass Seed Dreaming Gloria-petyarre-tag and her unique style

and her unique style

is a series of sacred and mythological song cycles which describe the epic journey of the Ancestors in the Dreamtime (Tjukurrpa) as they travelled through the land creating particular sites and teaching Aboriginal law

As a prominent elder she not only maintained but strengthened her cultural identity through her paintings and ceremonies

she and her family would hunt and gather food in the surrounding area

Her artworks depicted Jukurrpa stories

Grass Seed Dreaming Gloria-petyarre-tag and her unique styleIn 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