"Kaylene Whiskey's sneakers are so silver they're making the light dance. She's wearing one of her signature jumpers and sparkly Christmas earrings. The gleefully bold Yankunytjatjara artist is ready for a party, and she's brought that mood to the National Portrait Gallery (NPG) for the launch of Super Kaylene Whiskey. Forget hushed, white-walled reverence: this showcase exhibition erupts in celebration. Big colour, big mischief, big joy. It demands a soundtrack, and there is one: Cher, Abba, David Bowie, Boney M."
"sparkly Christmas earrings. The gleefully bold Yankunytjatjara artist is ready for a party, and she's brought that mood to the National Portrait Gallery (NPG) for the launch of Super Kaylene Whiskey. Forget hushed, white-walled reverence: this showcase exhibition erupts in celebration. Big colour, big mischief, big joy. It demands a soundtrack, and there is one: Cher, Abba, David Bowie, Boney M. And Dolly Parton, of course always and forever Dolly. When she's painting, Whiskey cranks up the music and works 9 to 5, Dolly-style."
Kaylene Whiskey stages exuberant, celebratory portraits that fuse global pop-culture idols with life in the Anangu Pitjantjatjara Yankunytjara Lands. The exhibition at the National Portrait Gallery presents a living-room portal from Kamberri to Indulkana, accompanied by an upbeat soundtrack of Cher, Abba, David Bowie, Boney M and Dolly Parton. Whiskey works out of Iwantja Arts and follows a family artistic lineage, painting heroes from 1980s and 1990s drive-in movies, music videos and comic books. The works place celebrities into desert activities such as kicking the footy, picking bush tomatoes and noodling for opals, creating joyful cultural mash-ups.
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