Grass Seed Dreaming Medium:Acrylic on Linen later transitioning to painting

later transitioning to painting

Her unique composition and the contemporary edge to her work reflects a keen sense of place retaining the importance of traditional country as inspiration for her art

Kirsty paints her Mina Mina Jukurrpa

where Alice had no family

She is now a Gija language teacher at the school and an artist at the Warmun Art Centre

Grass Seed Dreaming Medium:Acrylic on Linen later transitioning to paintingIn 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