Alexandrina
Kantilla

Alexandrina Kantilla has been exhibiting her work since her first group exhibition, Pupuni Yinkiti Arimuwu Kapi Winga, Good Food- Sea Food, an ArtBack Nets Travelling Exhibition from 2000-2004. Alexandrina worked at the Ngaruwanajirri Art Centre, Bathurst Island, as a painter in natural ochres on Arches paper, on four colour lino block prints on paper, but her forte is batik- designing waxing and dyeing silk scarves using Drimarine K dyes and Naphthol dyes,. She has been included in most Ngaruwanajirri group exhibitions exhibiting long batik silk scarves. The latter, much admired for their beauty, were featured in the Darwin Supreme Court Festival of Darwin exhibition in 2006.

In 2007 her silk scarves were again featured in“Yirrinkiripwaja” a Ngaruwanajirri Group exhibition at FAC Gallery, University of Wollongong, N.S.W and in 2008 in the’ Fabulous Top End Fabrics - Exhibition of Textiles from the Tiwi Islands’ exhibition at Territory Craft.

Alexandrina Kantilla was again included in the extensive exhibition ‘Ngaruwanajirri: helping one another’ at Charles Darwin University Gallery 2011.