Artist

Kaylene Whiskey

2026

  • © Rhett Hammerton, Courtesy Iwantja Arts

Born in 1976 in Mparntwe, Australia. Lives and works in Indulkana, Australia.

Biography

Kaylene Whiskey is a Yankunytjatjara artist from Indulkana in the Anangu Pitjantjatjara Yanku-nytjatjara (APY) Lands. Her paintings and videos bring together Anangu cosmology and global popular culture, producing vivid scenes in which ancestral figures appear alongside icons such as Dolly Parton, Wonder Woman and Cher. Using a bold visual language that draws on Central Desert painting alongside comic and media imagery, she reworks familiar symbols through humour and invention. Her work centres joy as a mode of expression, where play becomes a way of asserting presence, reconfiguring representation and sustaining community.

With the support of the Australian Embassy in France
In collaboration with Fondation OPALE