Grass Seed Dreaming Size:90 x 120 cm She grew up living a

She grew up living a traditional lifestyle with her family

His work is in the collection of the Art Gallery of Western Australia

a remote Aboriginal community 450 km north-west of Alice Springs in the Northern Territory of Australia

For 20 years she worked out of the Ernabella Arts where she honed her craft before joining the APY Studio Adelaide in 2020

Continuing their travels the women stopped at a site called Ngutjulnga

Grass Seed Dreaming Size:90 x 120 cm She grew up living aIn 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