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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

The bush leaf grows in a swamp near sandhills close to Utopia in her grandfather’s country and is prized for its curative properties

mountains and rock formations

I told them

It was at Papunya where she observed men

is the basis of desert art and Ada is rightly recognised as one of the founders

one brother and two sisters

The the painting represents the country associated with the Janganpa Jukurrpa (Brush-tailed Possum) is Mungapunju a hill south of Yuendumu

is a series of sacred and mythological song cycles which describe the epic journey of the Ancestors in the Dreamtime (Tjukurrpa) as they travelled through the land creating particular sites and teaching Aboriginal law

2003 Chapel off Chapel Gallery

Other works include Bush Honey - ‘Sugarbag’ Dreaming at Dry Swamp in which the dark cells of the hives float on a plain ground

To overcome her initial shyness in his company

Kudditji Kngwarreye

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