Tina started printing at Babbarra Women’s Centre in 2024. She grew up in Maningrida and lived in Darwin from 2003 – 2004. Tina is the cousin sister of renound artist Raylene Bonson. Raylene has been teaching Tina how to carve and print lino.

Tina loves manme (bush food) and bush medicine and worked at the Maningrida nursery for 10 years. She has transformed her passion for manme (bushfood) into textiles and she often prints edible bushfoods like wayuk (waterlily) and barramundi bones.