Grass Seed Dreaming Kathleen-petyarre-tag Although Ada would tell you

Although Ada would tell you that she had been painting all her life

sand hills and campsites of her country

I got away from them once

Lorna Fencer Napurrula was born in the 1920s in the Tanami Desert in Central Australia

approximately 300 kilometres (190 miles) northeast of Alice Springs

Grass Seed Dreaming Kathleen-petyarre-tag Although Ada would tell youIn 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