Grass Seed Dreaming Size:90 x 120 cm water holes

water holes

A design based on these dancing tracks is painted on women’s bodies before a ceremony is performed

She passed away in Nyirripi in 2011

Alice now has a big mob of grandchildren

close to an outstation in this country

Grass Seed Dreaming Size:90 x 120 cm water holesIn 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