Grass Size:120 x 180 cm Gabriella is a highly gifted

Gabriella is a highly gifted artist and one of the most esteemed contemporary Aboriginal female painters globally

Violet Petyarre is noted for her structured composition

she began painting plant foods and bush meats that she grew up with

The other important dreaming for these painters is the dancing tracks which are made in the sand during women’s ceremony

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

Grass Size:120 x 180 cm Gabriella is a highly giftedIn 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