Grass Seed Dreaming Medium:Acrylic on Linen blankets and clothes

blankets and clothes

Valerie and Christy

Portulaca oleracea is a vital food source for desert people because it is highly nutritious and still manages to set seed during times of low rainfall

The practice of hunting and gathering bush tucker—native foods—remains important today

Whilst at Papunya

Grass Seed Dreaming Medium:Acrylic on Linen blankets and clothesIn 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