Grass Seed Dreaming Galya-pwerle-tag she began painting plant foods

she began painting plant foods and bush meats that she grew up with

Rita is a talented artist from Fregon on the APY Lands

This is a Creation Story about the constellations of Pleiades and Orion

Warlawurru (eagles) and Miinypa (native fuschia)

Grass Seed Dreaming Galya-pwerle-tag she began painting plant foodsIn 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