Raylene Walatinna is the daughter of Betty Chimney, a senior woman and established painter at Iwantja Arts.

Raylene’s artistic practice has been guided by the influence of her mother, and in recent years they have worked together on large-scale collaborative paintings. Through this process, they continue the tradition of older women passing on their important knowledge of Tjukurpa (ancestral stories) and ngura (Country) to younger women.

Raylene is also a mother and recently a grandmother, and is proud to be continuing this important cultural tradition.

Raylene’s paintings are informed by her family’s strong connection toCountry and their history (both their ancestral Yankunytjatjara cultural history and more recent family history) associated with the rugged desertCountry around Indulkana.

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