Grass Seed Dreaming Medium:Acrylic on Linen and later at Kintore

and later at Kintore

She subsequently gained recognition as one of Australia’s most prominent Indigenous artists

The Role of Body Painting in Aboriginal Culture

Whilst at Papunya

Grass Seed Dreaming Medium:Acrylic on Linen and later at KintoreIn 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