Grass Seed Dreaming Gloria-petyarre-tag This close family connection has

This close family connection has played a significant role in Jennifer's journey as an artist

the bush bean

many Indigenous people who had been forced to live in communities such as Yuendumu began to move back onto their traditional lands

rock holes

she and her family would hunt and gather food in the surrounding area

Grass Seed Dreaming Gloria-petyarre-tag This close family connection hasIn 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