Raylene Miller
Raylene Miller grew up in Milikapiti and was educated at Kormilda College, Darwin. She worked as a teacher’s assistant at the Milikapiti Primary School. She began painting at Jilamara Art and Crafts following in the footsteps of her great-grandfather, Alie Miller, a painter and a woodcarver whose artworks inspire her. Miller paints jilamara / designs with a pwoja / ironwood comb. She likes to paint japalinga / stars and her mother’s dreaming, jarrikalani / turtle. In 2018, she learnt screen-printing on textiles. She is now head screen-printer and manages the Nancy Henry Ripijingimpi Textile Studio at the art centre.
Skin: Wantaringuwi (Sun)