Grass Seed Dreaming Nancy-napanangka--gibson-tag Ena Nakamarra Gibson passed away

Ena Nakamarra Gibson passed away in January 2011

In these works

she and her family would hunt and gather food in the surrounding area

We kept going and we saw kartiya getting water in a bucket from a well

Grass Seed Dreaming Nancy-napanangka--gibson-tag Ena Nakamarra Gibson passed awayIn 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