Arthurina Moreen

BORN�������������� 2000

REGION����������� Melville Island, Northern Territory

COUNTRY�������� Purumpanali

LANGUAGE������ Tiwi

SKIN���������������� Marntupuni (House Fly)

DANCE������������ Kaluputi (Black Whip Snake)

Arthurina Moreen is a young emerging artist and artsworker/gallery assistant at Jilamara Arts and Crafts Association. She oversees operations in the art centre gallery and studios as well as participates in organisational governance as an elected Executive Committee member. Her role includes artwork cataloguing with the SAM database, studio artwork photography, post-production image editing, pricing and sales, studio supports, working with the historical collection at the art centre�s keeping place and travelling for art fairs, exhibitions and events. She joined Jilamara Arts in 2021 as a screen printer in the workshop and she has quickly established herself as a key member of the organisation�s workforce.

Arthurina graduated High School at Tiwi College in 2018, shortly after she was scouted by Essendon Football Club to join AFLW training programs in Melbourne and spent a lot of 2019 in Victoria. Rina features in a documentary about this story called �Like My Brother�. After returning to the Tiwi Islands, she has held a few different employment positions in Milikapiti including being a support teacher at the primary school working with children with special needs and a parttime position at the Milikapiti Sports and Social Club.

In 2022 Arthurina travelled with Jilamara to take part in the King and Wood Malleson�s Indigenous Governance Conference and in 2023 she completed the ANKA Artsworker Extension Program where she travelled to Canberra, Sydney and Melbourne visiting relevant arts institutions including National Gallery of Australia, Art Gallery of New South Wales, University of Melbourne�s Grimwade centre and the National Gallery of Victoria.