Grass Seed Dreaming Medium:Acrylic on Linen Joylene previously painted at Tjurma

Joylene previously painted at Tjurma Homelands Arts and Crafts Centre

to the west

She was born at a place called Riya on the Turner River

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

5m high with weeping foliage and white flowers

Grass Seed Dreaming Medium:Acrylic on Linen Joylene previously painted at TjurmaIn 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