Grass Seed Dreaming Kathleen-petyarre-tag Pintubi artist

Pintubi artist

This upbringing connected her deeply to her country and its customs

This image was used as the poster and catalogue cover for the exhibition at the Ian Potter Museum of Art at the University of Melbourne between December 2002 and March 2003

Utopia is a cattle station situated in the Sandover area of Central Australia

Grass Seed Dreaming Kathleen-petyarre-tag Pintubi artistIn 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