Grass Seed Dreaming Gloria-petyarre-tag Valerie and Christy

Valerie and Christy

she also shares with her six sisters the Thorny Mountain Devil Lizard Dreaming

many Indigenous people who had been forced to live in communities such as Yuendumu began to move back onto their traditional lands

Galya recalls a time when its seeds formed an important part of her clan’s diet and held deep cultural significance

tapering lines overlap gracefully to represent a grass once abundant at Utopia before cattle grazing was introduced in the early 20th century

Grass Seed Dreaming Gloria-petyarre-tag Valerie and ChristyIn 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