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Grass Seed DreamingIn 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

Concentric circles are often used to represent the ‘jintiparnta’ (desert truffles) that the women have collected

With the advent of the Northern Territory Land Rights Act in 1976

These lines represent dancing tracks in the sand made by the women

Gallery Gondwana

She loved walking all over the country with her grandmother and the other old women

1998 Araluen Arts Centre

Art Gallery of South Australia

offering glimpses into the ceremonial traditions and creation narratives that define the Pintupi people's connection to their land

such as collecting bush tucker like seeds

Between 2000 and her passing in 2006

she recalls traveling this route many times to visit family

Brisbane in conjunction with Suzanne O’Connell Gallery