The Art of Kaylene Whiskey
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'Kaylene Whiskey is an artistic Swiss Army knife in the world of multimedia' Taika Waititi
'It's one of my dreams for Dolly to come and visit me in Indulkana. I love to listen to her music while I paint: '9 to 5', 'Coat of many colours', 'Jolene' and my number one, 'Islands in the stream' with Kenny Rogers. I often think if Dolly came to visit, what would she do? What would she say? And what would she be wearing?' Kaylene Whiskey
Kaylene Whiskey's paintings dazzle with brightly coloured pop stars rendered in dots and set amongst her own community in remote Central Australia. She depicts female characters from popular culture including Dolly Parton, Tina Turner, Catwoman, Cher and Wonderwoman, all connected to the Kungkarangkalpa Tjukurpa, or Seven Sisters story – except these female heroines are partying at Iwantja Arts Centre in Indulkana, South Australia.
Her comic-book style and text bubbles are hilarious yet potent symbols of female power in an Aboriginal setting: an anthem to contemporary connection to Country and popular culture. Her works are held in the collections of museums across Australia and internationally. Kaylene is based at Iwantja Arts, also home to Vincent Namatjira, Betty Muffler and Kunmanara (Tiger) Yaltangki.
Kaylene Whiskey was born in Mparntwe (Alice Springs) in 1976. In 2018 the self-taught artist won the Sulman Prize, and then in 2019 she won the Telstra National Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Art Award for general painting. She was an Archibald Prize finalist in 2020 for the first time. Recent exhibitions include a major new commission for the 24th Biennale of Sydney, Ten Thousand Suns supported by Fondation Cartier; 22nd Biennial Sesc_Videobrasil, Sao Paulo, 2023; Aichi Triennale, Japan, 2022, and Haus der Kunst, Munich, 2021. In 2021 her work will appear in bus shelters in New York as part of a new commission with Public Art Fund. Professor Natalie King OAM is an Australian curator, writer and senior researcher engaged with artists and institutions across the Asia-Pacific region and Europe. In 2017, she was curator of Tracey Moffatt: My Horizon, Australian Pavilion at the 57th Venice Biennale, accompanied by a publication that she edited with Thames & Hudson, and in 2022 she edited Yuki Kihara's Paradise Camp, New Zealand's contribution to the 59th Venice Biennale.
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