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Grass Seed DreamingIn 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

born around 1938 near Watulka

‘warnayarra’ (the ‘rainbow serpent’) and the snake carried water to create the large lake

I walked out from the desert with my husband when I was a young girl

Barney Campbell Tjakamarra’s legacy endures

Occasionally she paints Wurrpadi Jukurrpa (Spear-tree Dreaming) and Wakerlpirri Jukurrpa (Dogwood Tree Dreaming) Dreamings

she and her family relocated from Haasts Bluff to the new settlement of Papunya

acrylic on linen

Kakadu (Mt Dennison) and Wariwari (Mt Allan)

She was represented in the Telstra Art award exhibition in 1999 with a stunning picture Boornbem Goorlem

and in the decade that followed Aboriginal people of various tribes and families from the surrounding area were forcibly relocated to Yuendumu

The different colours and designs represent variations in the Landscape

Ningura’s dynamic paintings