Seven Sistas Story, 2021 Kaylene Whiskey. Courtesy of Bendigo Art Gallery. © Kaylene Whiskey, Photo courtesy of the National Portrait Gallery
Yankunytjatjara artist Kaylene Whiskey introduces a powerful retrospective on her one-of-a-kind oeuvre and legacy in Super Kaylene Whiskey. With over 80 paintings taken from public and private collections, as well as one specially commissioned portrait, the National Portrait Gallery captures the pop, community-like, and feminist galaxy of Whiskey.
Flying Over Indulkana, 2022 Kaylene Whiskey. Australian Institute of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies Collection, Canberra. © Kaylene Whiskey, Photo courtesy of the National Portrait Gallery
Using Kungka Kuṉpu (strong women) as her primary lens, she brilliantly joins Aṉangu kinship to pop culture, with mainstream figures such as Wonder Woman, Tina Turner or Dolly Parton portrayed hunting in the bush. Undeniably talented, she has notable received the Art Gallery of New South Wales’ Sulman Prize in 2018 for her work Kaylene TV.
Experience Kaylene Whiskey’s mesmerising and multicoloured universe at the National Portrait Gallery, on view until March 9th, 2026.
SOURCE: The National Portrait Gallery