Grass Seed Dreaming Size:120 x 120 cm ensuring the transmission of cultural

ensuring the transmission of cultural knowledge and practices

“come on you have to go”

This was purchased by the Western Australian Art Gallery in 2003

remains highly valued by the women of Utopia

She was the daughter of Irish station owner Jack Weir and Minnie Pwerle

Grass Seed Dreaming Size:120 x 120 cm ensuring the transmission of culturalIn 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