Grass Seed Dreaming Galya-pwerle-tag This remarkable painting

This remarkable painting

Warlawurru (eagles) and Miinypa (native fuschia)

Makinti won the National Aboriginal & Torres Strait Islander Art Award in 2008

The result is an enigmatic ‘look through’ effect

Rita is a talented artist from Fregon on the APY Lands

Grass Seed Dreaming Galya-pwerle-tag This remarkable 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