Grass Seed Dreaming Major-artworks-tags Museum and Art Gallery of

Museum and Art Gallery of the Northern Territory

They include sand hills

2003 Chapel off Chapel Gallery

It has been shown that the batik makers moved on to painting with acrylic paint and canvas in 1988 and Ada was also deeply involved with this activity

Kevin likes to paint landscape

Grass Seed Dreaming Major-artworks-tags Museum and Art Gallery ofIn 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