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Super Kaylene Whiskey

Opens Saturday 15 November 2025
until Monday 9 March 2026
Flying over Indulkana, 2022 Kaylene Whiskey
Flying over Indulkana, 2022 Kaylene Whiskey. © Kaylene Whiskey. AIATSIS Collection.

Bookings available

Adult $16 / Concession $14 / Circle of Friends $10 / Mob Free (limit 2 per person) / Under 18 Free

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Super Kaylene Whiskey celebrates one of Australia’s leading contemporary artists, proud Yankunytjatjara woman Kaylene Whiskey. This major survey brings together works from across Whiskey’s career, showcasing her dynamic practice that is grounded in stories of First Nations joy and strength. Drawn from public and private collections, the exhibition features paintings, video work and installation from her early career to now, as well as a newly commissioned portrait.

With irreverent humour, Whiskey playfully combines everyday life, Aṉangu culture and beloved pop culture icons in her work. Dolly Parton, Cher and Wonder Woman share centre stage with Whiskey and other strong kungkas (women) as together they hunt and collect bush tucker. Through her rich visual stories, Whiskey joyfully connects cultures, Country and celebrity and invites us along for the ride.

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
Kaylene Whiskey in the studio at Iwantja Arts, Indulkana Rhett Hammerton. Photographed on the Aṉangu Pitjantjatjara Yankunytjatjara Lands.

Born in 1976 in Mparntwe/Alice Springs, Kaylene Whiskey is a Yankunytjatjara artist who works out of Iwantja Arts, an Indigenous owned and governed Aboriginal art centre in the Indulkana Community on the Aṉangu Pitjantjatjara Yankunytjatjara (APY) Lands in the remote north-west of South Australia. In 2018, Whiskey won the Art Gallery of New South Wales’ Sulman Prize for her work Kaylene TV, 2018 and she is a three-time Archibald Prize finalist. Her now famous 2020 work, Dolly visits Indulkana, was projected onto the sails of the Sydney Opera House for Badu Gili: Wonder Women, in collaboration with the Art Gallery of New South Wales in 2021.

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This program is wheelchair accessible.

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Ticketing

Tickets are valid all day and for multiple entries on the date of your visit.

The National Portrait Gallery is committed to providing an affordable ticketing structure that encourages accessibility. Means-tested concession tickets are available for people, including seniors, students, Centrelink cardholders and pension cardholders. Proof of age may be requested. Mob tickets are available to those who self-identify as Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander people. No evidence is required however tickets are limited to two tickets per transaction. See full Concession and Discount Policy for more information.

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The National Portrait Gallery acknowledges the Traditional Custodians of Country throughout Australia and recognises the continuing connection to lands, waters and communities. We pay our respect to Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander cultures and to Elders past and present. We respectfully advise that this site includes works by, images of, names of, voices of and references to deceased people.

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