Grass Seed Dreaming Tommy-may-tag One Monday my promised husband

One Monday my promised husband came from GoGo Station to pick me up and we went to live at GoGo and then Bayulu Community

many Indigenous people who had been forced to live in communities such as Yuendumu began to move back onto their traditional lands

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

earning her recognition and acclaim within the art community

in the Northern Territory

Grass Seed Dreaming Tommy-may-tag One Monday my promised husbandIn 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