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Grass Seed DreamingIn 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

earning an international reputation that secured her a spot in the ‘TOP100 List’ of Indigenous artists

It is an interesting exercise to watch her paint as Barbara has mastered the flow and juddering

Jorna lived a nomadic hunter-gatherer lifestyle with her parents

In this painting Paul has depicted his country

convey the impression of thick confectionary

As is the case with a number of other older ladies of the desert her paintings demonstrate one of the last remaining links with women's ceremonial knowledge

is a respected senior woman

In many paintings of this Jukurrpa curved and straight lines represent the ‘ngawarra’ (flood waters) running through the landscape

They are usually done in white (sometimes

With her family she lived a nomadic lifestyle before moving east to the ration depot at Haasts Bluff

west of Kingtore

During the 1970s

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