Grass Seed Dreaming Narpula-scobie-napurrula-tag Acrylic on Canvas

Acrylic on Canvas

on a weekly basis

Walking in the Bush

Throughout the 1980s Tjampitjinpa worked devotedly on a land claim for Ininti

Her artwork portrays stories from the Mt Allan area

Grass Seed Dreaming Narpula-scobie-napurrula-tag Acrylic on CanvasIn 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