Grass Seed Dreaming Galya-pwerle-tag Rita is a talented artist

Rita is a talented artist from Fregon on the APY Lands

Her early paintings

the closest hospital to Nyirripi

Whilst the sisters share the same Dreaming

next to the large Soakage

Grass Seed Dreaming Galya-pwerle-tag Rita is a talented artistIn 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