Grass Size:120 x 180 cm I want to go back

I want to go back to my mother”

I was crying for my mother

International Acclaim and Exhibitions

‘warnayarra’ (the ‘rainbow serpent’) and the snake carried water to create the large lake

Janet lived between Halls Creek

Grass Size:120 x 180 cm I want to go backIn 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