Grass Seed Dreaming Size:120 x 120 cm The sacred stories and songs

The sacred stories and songs are the spiritual foundation on which Barbara bases her paintings

depicted walking and eating her way through her ancestral country

and geographic ties

in Nyirripi

regrowing after fire

Grass Seed Dreaming Size:120 x 120 cm The sacred stories and songsIn 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