Grass Seed Dreaming Major-artworks-tags body art is regarded as

body art is regarded as a sacred transformation that adheres to a stringent set of guidelines

After leaving Puluwala we walked to Purrpun and camped with my grandfather Walkarr and grandmother Jawili

They include sand hills

2003 Chapel off Chapel Gallery

the Pwerle sisters home country

Grass Seed Dreaming Major-artworks-tags body art is regarded asIn 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