Grass Seed Dreaming Size:90 x 120 cm associated sites and other elements

associated sites and other elements

their dreamings and their way of life

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

In more recent years

Grass Seed Dreaming Size:90 x 120 cm associated sites and other elementsIn 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