Grass Seed Dreaming Size:90 x 120 cm His work is in the

His work is in the collection of the Art Gallery of Western Australia

which is the story of the spear straightening ceremony taught to Mitjili by her mother

and to bind cuts

Angling towards the bottom left corner of the ‘map’ is a watercourse that has been full after rainy times but now leaves a residual pattern that is characteristic of her country

acrylic on linen

Grass Seed Dreaming Size:90 x 120 cm His work is in theIn 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