Grass Seed Dreaming Medium:Acrylic on Linen There was a plane landing

There was a plane landing right there and I was frightened of that plane

Museum and Art Gallery of the Northern Territory

My Mother’s Country

born c1925

A design based on these dancing tracks is painted on women’s bodies before a ceremony is performed

Grass Seed Dreaming Medium:Acrylic on Linen There was a plane landingIn 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