Grass Seed Dreaming Gloria-petyarre-tag Valerie and Christy

Valerie and Christy

These stories evoke memories of times when families cared for the land

Jennifer relocated to Adelaide for health reasons

As is the case with many of the female western desert painters

the bush bean

Grass Seed Dreaming Gloria-petyarre-tag Valerie and ChristyIn 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