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The Art of Kaylene Whiskey: Do You Believe in Love?

Panel discussion

Saturday 15 November 2025
11:30am – 12:15pm AEDT
Kaylene Whiskey in her studio, raising her arms in the air in celebration, next to a life size cutout of wonder woman and an artwork in progress
The Art of Kaylene Whiskey: Do You Believe in Love? edited by Natalie King and Iwantja Arts, published by Thames & Hudson Australia
1 Kaylene Whiskey in the studio at Iwantja Arts, Indulkana Rhett Hammerton. Photographed on the Aṉangu Pitjantjatjara Yankunytjatjara Lands. 2 The Art of Kaylene Whiskey: Do You Believe in Love? edited by Natalie King and Iwantja Arts, published by Thames & Hudson Australia.

Bookings essential - free

Join us for a dynamic panel discussion to celebrate the launch of Super Kaylene Whiskey and the first major monograph of her work –The Art of Kaylene: Do You Believe in Love? With a special introduction from Kaylene Whiskey herself, hear from exhibition curator April Phillips, editor and writer Natalie King OAM, and Manager of Art, Culture and Collections at Edith Cowan University Clothilde Bullen OAM. The panel will explore Whiskey’s joyous and layered practice that centres strong women, celebrity icons and her Aṉangu culture.

The panel discussion will be followed by a limited book signing. You can order your copy from the Curatoreum.

 

April Phillips
Natalie King OAM
Clo Bullen OAM
1 April Phillips. Photograph: Mark Mohell. 2 Natalie King OAM. Photograph: Alli Outghred. 3 Clo Bullen OAM. Photograph: Braden Hill.

April Phillips is a Wiradjuri-Scottish woman of the Galari/Kalari peoples. April is Curator at the National Portrait Gallery, and exhibition curator of Super Kaylene Whiskey. Over the past decade, April has contributed to arts programs, interpretation, advocacy, education and policy. She is a board associate for A New Approach and has participated in peer assessment boards and industry leader roundtables with Creative Australia. April has worked in numerous creative and advisory roles including for the Australian Children’s Television Foundation, Telstra Foundation, National Association of the Visual Arts and various museums and galleries across Australia.

Natalie King OAM is a curator, writer and Enterprise Professor of Visual Arts at the University of Melbourne. She is the editor of Kaylene Whiskey: Do You Believe in Love?, published by Thames & Hudson in 2025. Natalie has curated three national pavilions at the Venice Biennale: Maria Madeira: Kiss and Don't Tell, the inaugural Timor-Leste Pavilion at the 60th Venice Biennale 2024; Yuki Kihara: Paradise Camp, Aotearoa New Zealand at the 59th Venice Biennale 2022 and Powerhouse Museum, Sydney 2023; and Tracey Moffatt: My Horizon, Australian Pavilion, the 57th Venice Art Biennale 2017. She is President of AICA-Australia (International Association of Art Critics, Paris) and she has contributed to numerous publications including Phaidon books, Flash Art International, LEAP, Ocula and Art + Australia.

Clothilde Bullen OAM is a Wardandi and Badimaya curator, writer and advocate, and the Manager of Art, Culture and Collections at Edith Cowan University. Previously, Clothilde was the Senior Curator and Head of Indigenous Programs at the Art Gallery of Western Australia, and the inaugural Senior Curator First Nations Art at Sydney's Museum of Contemporary Art Australia. Clothilde was Chair of the Board of the National Association for the Visual Arts and has won awards for her curated exhibitions and publications, including a recent AAANZ publication award, and two Museum and Galleries NSW exhibition awards. In May 2025 Clothilde was awarded an Order of Australia medal for Services to Indigenous Art.

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