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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

in 2020 and 2022

Represented as the two black bold figures

Concentric circles are often used to represent the ‘jintiparnta’ (desert truffles) that the women have collected

A finalist in the 2003 Clemenger Contemporary Art Award

1991 Lowe Art Museum

is a celebrated Aboriginal artist who began her career during the batik era and remains a pivotal figure in the Aboriginal painting movement

was born at Haasts Bluff in February 1950 and grew up in Papunya

She became a pioneering figure within her community of Lajamanu

The desert art movement began at Papunya in 1971 when Narpula was twenty-one

Violet Petyarre’s paintings are held in private collections and numerous Australian and overseas galleries

1998 Araluen Arts Centre

cleaning the manager’s house