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| Barbara
Weir |  | | | | | | | | | | | Biography
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Weir was born in 1945 at what was formerly known as Bundy River Station in the
region of Utopia, 240 km northeast of Alice Springs. Her country is Atnwengerrp
and her language is Anmatyerre and Alyawarr. Barbara's mother is Aboriginal and
her father is Irish, and because she was a child of mixed parentage she was taken
away from her family at the age of nine. During these years she lost contact with
her family but was determined to return and re-claim her heritage.
In
the late 1960s she finally returned to Utopia with her six children, to be reunited
with the famous late Emily Kame Kngwarreye who had looked after her as a small
child. She began to re-learn the languages of her people. Through her renewed
special relationship with Emily Kngwarreye, Barbara's talent and interest in art
was encouraged and began to flourish.
Barbara Weir's Dreamings are:
Bush Berry, Grass Seed, Wild Flower and My Mother's Country, which she paints
with an explosive mixture of Aboriginal spirituality and modern white culture.
She is represented in major private and public collections including the Holmes
a Court Collection and the Art Gallery of South Australia. | | | | |
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