Grass Seed Dreaming Freda-brady-tag Awelye - Bodypaint

Awelye - Bodypaint

Ngarralja is an important person for art and culture in Fitzroy Crossing

and contributing to the mission at Lajamanu and Balgo

Her father was Toba Tjakamarra

the closest hospital to Nyirripi

Grass Seed Dreaming Freda-brady-tag Awelye - BodypaintIn 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