Grass Seed Dreaming Jennifer-ingkatji-tag telling the story of her

telling the story of her Country and its important cultural stories

Jorna lived a nomadic hunter-gatherer lifestyle with her parents

cultural and religious beliefs and practices of Aboriginal Australians

Utopia and many other places before finally abandoning political involvement as ‘

Phyllis Thomas is a Gija woman of Nagarra skin whose bush name

Grass Seed Dreaming Jennifer-ingkatji-tag telling the story of herIn 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