Grass Seed Dreaming Barney-campbell-tjakamarra-tag Crocodile Hole and lived there

Crocodile Hole and lived there for many years

her paintings were exhibited extensively across Australia

linear designs and bold

moving from the classic Tingari style of circle-and-line painting to a minimalist style characterised by rectangles set against a monochromatic background

tapering lines overlap gracefully to represent a grass once abundant at Utopia before cattle grazing was introduced in the early 20th century

Grass Seed Dreaming Barney-campbell-tjakamarra-tag Crocodile Hole and lived thereIn 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