Grass Seed Dreaming Narpula-scobie-napurrula-tag Serpent and Goanna Dreamings

Serpent and Goanna Dreamings

Today she paints at Tjala Arts and the APY Studio in Adelaide

with six solo exhibitions in Australia

In 2020 she was also a finalist in the Heysen Prize

Penny K LyonsNyangarni (Penny K Lyons)

Grass Seed Dreaming Narpula-scobie-napurrula-tag Serpent and Goanna DreamingsIn 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