Grass Seed Dreaming Jennifer-ingkatji-tag My Mother’s Country

My Mother’s Country

She grew up there with her family of one father

Sharon has exhibited extensively in Australia

the flesh is an important food throughout Utopia and other parts of Central Australia

Jorna lived a nomadic hunter-gatherer lifestyle with her parents

Grass Seed Dreaming Jennifer-ingkatji-tag My Mother’s CountryIn 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