Grass Seed Dreaming Medium:Acrylic on Linen ca 300 kms north west

ca 300 kms north west of Alice Springs in Central Australia

Serpent and Goanna Dreamings

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

“come on you have to go”

a grass long used by Indigenous people as an important food source

Grass Seed Dreaming Medium:Acrylic on Linen ca 300 kms north westIn 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