Grass Seed Dreaming Medium:Acrylic on Linen Lorna Fencer Napurrula was born

Lorna Fencer Napurrula was born in the 1920s in the Tanami Desert

moving between stations for ceremonial purposes

Barbara Weir (c1945 – 2023) was one of the most collected

I went to Jubilee Station instead and learnt how to work

Grass Seed Dreaming Medium:Acrylic on Linen Lorna Fencer Napurrula was bornIn 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