An artist with Tiwi Design, she was also the art centre's first female Chairperson. Tiwi Design is one of the oldest and most artistically diverse art centres in Australia. The art centre produces ochre paintings on canvas and bark, ironwood carvings, screen printed fabrics, ceramics, bronze and glass sculptures as well as limited edition prints. Tiwi Design is located at Nguiu on the south eastern corner of Bathurst Island. Nguiu has a population of approximately 1500. Bathurst Island has a land area of 2,200 square kilometres and is 80 kilometres north of Darwin in the Northern Territory, Australia. There are approximately 100 artists working with Tiwi Design.
Kerinauia's father's Country is Jamulampi. She works in a variety of mediums, and has explored, through painting, the significant Kulama ceremony of the Tiwi Islands.