Grass Seed Dreaming Barney-campbell-tjakamarra-tag 1986 Queensland University

1986 Queensland University

she eats her favourite foods

moving from the classic Tingari style of circle-and-line painting to a minimalist style characterised by rectangles set against a monochromatic background

We camped one night at Cherrabun and then went into town to the police station

ensuring there was plenty of food and happiness as they travelled from place to place

Grass Seed Dreaming Barney-campbell-tjakamarra-tag 1986 Queensland UniversityIn 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