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RAELENE KERINAUIA
BORN: 1/9/62
REGION: Melville Island, Northern Territory
DOMICILE: Milikapiti
AGENCY: Jilamara Arts & Crafts
COUNTRY: Pickataramoor
LANGUAGE: Tiwi
SKIN: Yikwani (Sun)
DANCE: Yirrikapayi (Crocodile)
MEDIUMS: Ochres on paper, canvas, bark and printmaking.
Raelene was born on Bathurst Island and raised by her grandmother. Her
older brother Vivian is also a painter. Raelene began designing
screens for fabric printing in 1985 as a part of the adult education
programme in Milikapiti and then started to paint when the new arts
centre (Jilamara Arts and Crafts Centre) was established in 1989. Initially
she used brushes with ochres but since 1999 has used the traditional
painting techniques of using comb - kayimwagakini. Combs
were used for ceremonial body painting application and are typically
made from bloodwood or ironwood.
Raelene was inspired to use the traditional technique of kayimwagakini after
watching young and emerging artist PedroWonaeamirri, and viewing older
pole carvings in the National Museum (Canberra) by the late Tiwi carver
Sugarbag Kapiti. The making of the comb is a skill itself, and
Raelene’s late husband, carver James Tipiloura, carved Raelene’s
painting combs.
© Jilamara Arts and Crafts Association
SOLO EXHIBITIONS:
2004 Jilamara
Wutiriyi Kayimwagakimi, RAFT Artspace, Darwin
2005 Bandigan
Art Gallery, Sydney (February)
2005 Parlini Jilamara (old design)
- New Work by Raelene Kerinauia, RAFT Artspace, Darwin
2007 Jilamara
Wutiriyi Kayimwagakimi, Alcaston Gallery, Melbourne
GROUP EXHIBITIONS:
1991 Yinkiti Amintiya Yoi (Food and Ceremony) An Exhibition
of Tiwi Dye-Printed Silks and Traditional Ochre Paintings, Crafts Council
Gallery, Darwin.
1991 Jilamara Milikapiti - Melville Island, Alcaston Gallery,
Melbourne.
1994-95 Art
of the Tiwi, National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne. Touring
exhibition Shepparton Art Gallery, Tasmanian Museum & Art Gallery,
Ballarat Fine Art Gallery, Tandanya Adelaide.
1995 Jilamara Kapi Yurruka Manimpurrua, (Designs on Long Canvas
and Pukumani Poles) Alcaston Gallery, Melbourne.
1995 NATSIAA, MAGNT Darwin
1996 Tiwi People from Melville Island. Anima Gallery Adelaide.
1998 The Old and the New Gallery Gondwana Alice Springs NT
1998 Group exhibition, Alcaston Gallery, Melbourne Victoria
1999 All About Art Alcaston Gallery, Melbourne
1999 Tiwi on Wood Alcaston Gallery, Melbourne
1999 The Art of the Tiwi Framed Gallery Darwin
2000 From Mythology to the Present, Wuerzburg, Germany
2001 Jilamara, Jilamara Framed Gallery Darwin
2001 Island Images Australian Print Workshop Melbourne
2001 Ochre Short Street Gallery Broome
2001 New Work from Jilamara Redback Gallery Brisbane
2002 Pwoja Jilamara Raft Artspace Darwin
2002 All About Art, Alcaston Gallery, Melbourne
2002-03 People in a Landscape, Australian Print Workshop touring
exhibition
2003 Waterhole, RAFT Artspace at GRANTPIRRIE Gallery, Sydney
2003 ART MIAMI 2003, with Alcaston Gallery, Florida, USA
2003 ARCO 2003, with Alcaston Gallery, Madrid, Spain
2003 Exhibition aboard the luxury liner The World, Melbourne
to Tokyo
2003 Kuturkuni Amintiya Tapulunni, RAFT Artspace, Darwin
2003 Fireworks Gallery, Brisbane August 2003
2003 All About Art, Alcaston Gallery at The Depot Gallery, Sydney
2003 Let’s Keep Our Art Strong: Recent works from the
Jilamara Artists, Raft Artspace, Darwin
2004 POSCO Art Centre, Seoul, Korea sponsored by the Australian Trade
Commission and Australian Embassy, Seoul in association with Gallery
Samtuh, Seoul
2004 Living Tiwi: Tiwi Awuta Yimpanguwi, Museum für Völkerkunde,
Hamburg, Germany in association with Jilamara Arts and Crafts
2004 Milikapiti Turtiyanginari: Milikapiti Ochre, RAFT Artspace,
Darwin
2005 Living Tiwi: Tiwi Awuta Yimpanguwi, Galerie Dad, Mantes-La-Jolie,
France
2005 Yirrarra – Kulama amintiya Pukumani, Alcaston
Gallery, Melbourne
2006 Xstrata Coal Emerging Indigenous Art Award, Queensland
Art Gallery
2006 Awirankini Jilamara, Suzanne O’Connell Gallery,
Brisbane
2006 Nginingaji ngawula kurrupuranji Jilamara, RAFT Artspace,
Darwin
2006 Yirrajirrima murrakupuni ngawurraningimarri, Tiwi Art
Network, Darwin
2006 Jilamara: new etchings from Melville Island, Northern
Editions, Darwin
2006 Jilamara: new etchings from Melville Island, Northern
Editions, Alison Kelly Gallery Melbourne
2006 All the Tiwi Mob, Short St Gallery, Broome
2006 Jilamara Tiwi, Soma Galleries, Adelaide
2006 Jilamara works on paper, Sofitel Melbourne.
2006 Ngawila jilamara: our design, Aboriginal & Pacific
Art Gallery, Sydney
2006 Ratuwati amintiya ratuwati: Island to Island,
Art Mob, Hobart
2007 Earth on Paper, Seva Frangos Gallery, Perth
2007 NATSIAA, Museum & Art Gallery of the Northern
Territory, Darwin
2008 Important Aboriginal Art, Michael Reid Gallery,
Sydney
2008 30x80, Seva Frangos Gallery, Perth
COLLECTIONS HELD:
National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne.
Queen Victoria Museum and Art Gallery, Launceston
Kerry Stokes Collection, Perth
National Museum of Australia, Canberra
National Gallery of Australia, Canberra
Sammlung Essl Collection, Austria
Commonwealth Games Commission, Melbourne
Charles Darwin University, Darwin
Museum of Confluences, Lyon, France
Museum and Gallery of the Northern Territory, Darwin
BIBLIOGRAPHY
1. Living Tiwi: Tiwi Awuta Yimpanguwi, Jilamara Arts
and Crafts Association, 2004
2. Schwerin, M. Kayimwagakimi: The painting of Raelene Kerinauia
and Pedro Wonaeamirri, Art Monthly Australia, March 2005 #177
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