Artists often represent their connection to their place through the art of artmaking, a spiritual relationship between the art piece, the artist and where they originated from is clear for the viewers to associate these artworks to their, place, beliefs and morals. Kaylene Whiskey is an Aboriginal artist who was born in Indulka, a small community in rural South Australia. Whiskey specialises in graphical/comic paintings. As quoted previously in an interview, Whiskey recalls, “For me, I take inspiration from a famous woman known globally for creating a positive impact on our world, economically, socially or environmentally.” If you carefully analyse her variety of artworks, you can see that most of the females featured in her paintings are inspirational …show more content…
Not only does the art piece captivate and inspire her audience, epically directed at younger girls and teenagers, but it also gives us an insight into her cultural identity and touches on her personal experiences whilst making a creative and entertaining artwork for us to enjoy. The same concept can also be related to another famous artwork of hers, “Kunga with wildflowers and wombat (2023)” In this vibrant painting, an indigenous woman stands before a wombat and sunflowers, in the top half of the artwork, a landscape with rocks, grasses, trees and mountains lay, with presents and a heart with the words “love.” This word motivates us to love ourselves and our neighbours around us. This artwork clearly shows her connection to her homeland. Upon examining these pieces, we can ask ourselves the question, “How do artists represent their connection to place in their artmaking?” As we can see in the examples above, artists can capture their connection to their place in many ways, whereas it may be painting their background to be some place that is related to your culture, for example, Uluru would represent Australian