Grass Seed Dreaming Size:90 x 120 cm Ngarralja Tommy May was born

Ngarralja Tommy May was born in 1935 and is an Indigenous Australian artist

Alice now has a big mob of grandchildren

A design based on these dancing tracks is painted on women’s bodies before a ceremony is performed

ca 300 kms north west of Alice Springs in Central Australia

Grass Seed Dreaming Size:90 x 120 cm Ngarralja Tommy May was bornIn 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