Sheena came to her painting life with a quiet confidence that was founded on the strength and knowledge she had gained from the traditional skills and techniques passed onto her by her mother. These she transformed into unique and dramatic landscapes.

In 1998 Margie West, the then curator of indigenous art at the MAGNT, described her art as follows
"Sheena applies painterly fields of colour of vibrancy and spontaneity equal to anything produced by the fauves."

In 1994 Sheena began painting with the Joshua Sisters at Ngukurr and from then produced six solo exhibitions and ten group exhibitions including her first in 1997 with Karen Brown Gallery in Darwin and Gallery Gabrielle Pizzi in Melbourne and on going til 2011.

From 1997 – 2002 Sheena was a Telstra NATSIAA finalist six times consecutively from the 14th to 19th National Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Art Award 1997 Museum and Art Gallery of the Northern Territory. Sheena also had works acquired by the MAGNT collection and selected for the touring exhibition in 2000.

In 1998 Sheena was selected to exhibit in Contemporary Territory, MAGNT.

Other highlights include:
2000 -Selected to represent Australia in the Bienalle D’Art Contemporaine De Noumea Tjbaou Centre.
2000 - 2010 Melbourne Art Fair (bi-annual) participation as a selected artist with Karen Brown Fine Art
2015 -Sheena's work was selected for a major Australian Tapestry Workshop Commission .

Amongst others, her work has been collected by:

Garrillo and Yinz Gantner
Karen Brown Collection
Museum and Art Gallery of the Northern Territory
Shell Collection Australia
Kerry Stokes Collection, WA
Alistair McAlpine Collection, England
Levi Kaplan Collection, USA
Ace Insurance Bermuda
Michael and Dame Rosie Horton
James Montgomery
Christina and Trevor Kennedy
Kathleen Baker Brown
Angela Broad
Lisa Pile
Jane DeGault
Private Collectors Nationally and Internationally