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Barbara Weir
C 1945
Region: Utopia - Northern Territory, Adelaide - South Australia
Language Group: Anmatyerre/Alyawarre
Born on Bundy River Station in the region of Utopia, Barbara Weir's mother is the late Minnie Pwerle, a very well-known artist and her father was an Irishman.
She was taken from her family and fostered out, but , in the 1960's Barbara returned to Utopia and stayed with her aunt, Emily Kame Kngwarreye.
Barbara commenced painting with acrylics on canvas in 1989 and developed a sophisticated and contemporary painting style. (She also paints with ochres.) In 1994 Barbara Weir and other Aboriginal women travelled to Indonesia to learn batik techniques: then, in 1996, she travelled to Europe with her exhibition of paintings.
Source: Kreczmanski, Janusz B & Birnberg, Margo (eds.): Aboriginal Artists: Dictionary of Biographies: Central Desert, Western Desert & Kimberley Region (JB Publishing Australia, Marleston, 2004)
