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She paints her country with rock holes

Her grandmother

blankets and clothes

The women stopped at Karntakurlangu

and the Queensland Art Gallery acquired and displayed her works

My Mother's Country Stephen-nelson-tag She paints her country withIn 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