Grass Seed Dreaming Size:90 x 120 cm setting the tone for a

setting the tone for a successful career

dance cycles and body paint

a remote Aboriginal community 450 km north-west of Alice Springs in the Northern Territory of Australia

and to bind cuts

Steven Nelson Steven Jupurrurla Nelson was born in 1967 and lives in Yuendumu

Grass Seed Dreaming Size:90 x 120 cm setting the tone for aIn 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