Grass Seed Dreaming Nancy-napanangka--gibson-tag their dreamings and their way

their dreamings and their way of life

She has recently returned to live in Yuendumu and is painting with the Warlukurlangu Artists every day

The workers from Cherrabun Station saw a bushfire at Yapulu and thought there must be bushmen there

A shape that appears often in her work hangs down and is filled with parallel lines

Grass Seed Dreaming Nancy-napanangka--gibson-tag their dreamings and their wayIn 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