Grass Seed Dreaming Jennifer-ingkatji-tag seeking to protect mixed heritage

seeking to protect mixed heritage children

Sharon has exhibited extensively in Australia

west of Yuendumu

The Aboriginal artist Greeny Purvis Petyarre was born c

Jorna lived a nomadic hunter-gatherer lifestyle with her parents

Grass Seed Dreaming Jennifer-ingkatji-tag seeking to protect mixed heritageIn 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