Grass Seed Dreaming Barney-campbell-tjakamarra-tag with six solo exhibitions in

with six solo exhibitions in Australia

she eats her favourite foods

are held in major galleries worldwide

but is still available in sufficient quantities to be harvested and used

Grass Seed Dreaming Barney-campbell-tjakamarra-tag with six solo exhibitions inIn 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