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Grass Seed DreamingIn 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

in the far northwest of South Australia

Another significant Dreaming is the Bush Leaf

A finalist in the 2003 Clemenger Contemporary Art Award

Nyangarni became distressed about losing her parents and wanted to keep looking for them

to the west

At age nine

She has also collaborated with her mother and her sisters on several other works

1945 at Mt Doreen station

the dream time dance tracks can be seen as runnels in a flat rock at a sacred site in Utopia

Barney Campbell Tjakamarra's artistic journey was deeply intertwined with his cultural heritage and the stories of his ancestors

A shape that appears often in her work hangs down and is filled with parallel lines

Anita is a Mimili Maku Arts art center director and represents Mimili Maku Arts as a board member