Grass Seed Dreaming Medium:Acrylic on Linen the area is sacred to

the area is sacred to Napangardi and Napanangka women

Personal Life and Artistic Milestones

This special Soakage is where the Indulkana community first began

At Puyurru the bird dug up a giant snake

her paintings were exhibited extensively across Australia

Grass Seed Dreaming Medium:Acrylic on Linen the area is sacred toIn 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