Grass Seed Dreaming Size:120 x 120 cm 1993 Chapman Gallery

1993 Chapman Gallery

This was purchased by the Western Australian Art Gallery in 2003

and geographic ties

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

Grass Seed Dreaming Size:120 x 120 cm 1993 Chapman GalleryIn 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