Kaylene Whiskey’s appropriation of Western pop culture, American mainstream television, manifests itself in a unique empowering visual language; a fantasy world where a black wonder woman befriends Dolly Parton. Her iconography merges comic style figuration alongside the ‘dot’ iconography of Australia’s Central Desert, stemming from her Anangu culture. Her paintings celebrate happiness and joy as forms of resilience, and indirectly challenge the cultural essentialisms projected upon Aboriginal art. Her unapologetic liberty and life philosophy debunks the paternalistic establishment of ‘White Australia’ institutionality, as it devours its culture. The scripts of Whiskey’s videos are produced closely through her vision and direction, and they almost always include her own voice and narrative as voice over or singing. Her position in contemporary First Nations art has radically transgressed the art field, turning her art and story part of the public sphere’s conscience on Aboriginal representation, becoming perhaps the most iconic living female artist in Australia today, having national and international exhibitions.