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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

Today Lily Kelly Napangardi's art is recognised as some of the most innovative in the contemporary Aboriginal art scene

Her home was the Aboriginal Community of Nyirripi

We were wearing yakapiri [bush used to make sandals to protect feet from the hot ground]

both of which are depicted in her pieces

An eight panel series on the same subject was shown at Raft Artspace in Darwin in April 2002

These rock holes serve as an essential water source for the Anangu

Ningura Napurrula

1930 – 9 January 2011) was a Pintupi-speaking Indigenous Australian artist from Australia's Western Desert region

its unique features

Julie's paintings shimmer with exuberant energy

Then we left for Wili which is the country for the Jukula mob

rainmakers