Kitty Kantilla

  • Artist (Sculptor), (Painter)
Tiwi sculptor and painter, Yimpinari, Melville Island, began painting barks when her former art of carving in ironwood had become too physically demanding, then moved to painting in acrylic on canvas.
Talk | Version history | Updated Oct. 19, 2011 | Created Jan. 1, 1999
Name
Kitty Kantilla
Gender
Female
Roles
  • Artist (Sculptor)
  • Artist (Painter)
Residence
  • Yimpinari, Melville Island
Languages
  • English
Is Indigenous
No
Initial Record Data Source
  • Legacy data. Source 'unknown'

Tiwi sculptor and painter, Yimpinari, Melville Island, began painting barks when her former art of carving in ironwood had become too physically demanding, then moved to painting in acrylic on canvas.

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Writers:
Staff Writer
Date written:
1999
Last updated:
2011
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Citations:
  • Bennett, James, (1993), 'Narrative and Decoration in Tiwi Painting; Tiwi Representations of the Purukuparli Story', (writer is co-ordinator of Jilamara Arts and Crafts, Milikapiti, Melville Island Place: Art Bulletin of Victoria, no.33, pp.39-47)