Grass Seed Dreaming Major-artworks-tags Nyangarni’s family and other groups

Nyangarni’s family and other groups migrated north to the cattle station country surrounding the Fitzroy Valley

Fire Burning Bright which premiered at the Perth International Arts Festival in February 2002 and opened the Melbourne International Festival of the Arts the State Theatre of Victoria in October 2002

an Aboriginal community 160 kms west of Yuendumu

Background and Early Life

Gloria’s Leaves

Grass Seed Dreaming Major-artworks-tags Nyangarni’s family and other groupsIn 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