2026 Foundation Appeal

Kaylene Whiskey / Yankunytjatjara people / Australia NT b.1976 / Power, Love, Kungka Kunpu (Strong Women) 2023 / Proposed for Queensland Art Gallery I Gallery of Modern Art Collection / Image courtesy: the artist and Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery, Sydney / Photograph: David Suyasa / © Kaylene Whiskey/Copyright Agency / View full image

We invite you to support the acquisition of exemplary paintings by Kaylene Whiskey (Yankunytjatjara people) and Vincent Namatjira OAM (Western Aranda people), two celebrated artists working out of Iwantja Arts in Indulkana, in the Anangu Pitjantjatjara Yankunytjatjara (APY) Lands of South Australia’s remote northwest. In these vibrant works, each artist recalls iconic paintings from European art history through their signature style.

Until April 2027, visitors to QAG can view Vincent Namatjira’s work in the Dr Paul Eliadis AM Galleries, while visitors to GOMA can view Kaylene Whiskey’s work at the top of the escalators on level 2 until 1 August.

By supporting the 2026 Appeal, you will help to bring these visually arresting works by leading contemporary Australian painters into the Gallery’s Collection.

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Power, Love, Kungka Kunpu (Strong Women)

Reimagining Sandro Botticelli’s acclaimed Italian Renaissance masterpiece The Birth of Venus c.1485, Kaylene Whiskey’s Power, Love, Kungka Kunpu (Strong Women) 2023 depicts Venus as an empowered Aṉangu woman, sporting a blue manicure and pedicure, jewellery and thigh tattoo. Famously pictured as emerging from a clam, here, the Roman goddess of love, beauty and prosperity joins her talented and famous friends Tina Turner, Dolly Parton and Wonder Woman, whose spirits are high as they celebrate friendship, love and sisterhood.

In my painting, I have put a beautiful Aboriginal goddess… She’s not one person in particular, but she is all of the kungka kuṉpu (strong women) I know, and love.

— Kaylene Whiskey

Dingo Cavalerie

In Vincent Namatjira’s Dingo Cavalerie 2025, the cheeky dingo is king of Central Australia. The subject’s regal costume is symbolic of the power of a foreign invading force; here, however, it is worn as a symbol of strength and resilience. This portrait borrows its composition from French painter Jacques-Louis David’s epic series of large-scale Neoclassical works titled Napoleon crossing the Alps, spanning 1801–05. With its pale blue sky and sun-kissed landscape, however, Namatjira’s work more closely resembles the signature style of his great-grandfather, watercolourist Albert Namatjira.

The King Dingo figure represents Aboriginal strength, pride and resilience, and respect for Country, culture and Indigenous leadership past and present.

— Vincent Namatjira OAM

By giving to the 2026 Appeal, you will help to ensure that these important works, which will significantly enhance the Collection, are enjoyed by the Gallery’s audiences for years to come.

Liz Pidgeon, President, QAGOMA Foundation

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