Lorna
Kantilla

Lorna Kantilla has been working at the Ngaruwanajirri Art Centre, Bathurst Island, since it was established in 1994. Lorna works with natural ochres on paper and canvas, and batik on silk using Drimarine K and Naphthol dyes. Her paintings are lively and spontaneous with flowing strokes and often using just lines, dots or circular patterns in paintings and painting wax onto silk.

Her subject matter for most of her paintings is of Jukwarringa. (Mud Mussels a favourite food for the Tiwi) Lorna has been included in numerous group exhibitions including being chosen for a large Tiwi group exhibition with works from Jilamara, Munupi and Tiwi Design Art Centres at Short St Gallery, WA, 2006. Lorna is passionate about Tuyu, her Tiwi Islands football team and has been a very loyal supporter over the years. She also supports the Kangaroos, her Southern football team.

Lorna likes playing cards with her family and hunting on Sundays with family for mud mussels, yuwurli (mangrove worm) and piranga (welk) in the mangroves. Lorna’s work is held in the Batchelor Institute of Indigenous Tertiary Education Collection, the Charles Darwin University Art Collection, the University of Wollongong Art Collection, the University of Newcastle Art Collection Newcastle NSW and the Art Gallery of South Australia.