Grass Seed Dreaming Size:120 x 120 cm in Nyirripi

in Nyirripi

and bush banana

Ngarralja lives with his children at Mindi Rardi Community in Fitzroy Crossing

In many paintings of this Jukurrpa curved and straight lines represent the ‘ngawarra’ (flood waters) running through the landscape

have been passed down for millennia

Grass Seed Dreaming Size:120 x 120 cm in NyirripiIn 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