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

with six solo exhibitions in Australia

Valerie and Christy

she eats her favourite foods

moving from the classic Tingari style of circle-and-line painting to a minimalist style characterised by rectangles set against a monochromatic background

after which she returned permanently to Utopia with her six children

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