My Country Major-artworks-tags since 2005

since 2005

who ‘grew her up’ in Indigenous terms

For 20 years she worked out of the Ernabella Arts where she honed her craft before joining the APY Studio Adelaide in 2020

in Australia's Northern Territory

‘Ngalyipi’ is also used to tie around the forehead to cure headaches

My Country Major-artworks-tags since 2005Joylene was born in 1967 and is the daughter of Tjimpayi Presley (a member of the Mitakiki Women's Collaborative) and the granddaughter of Tjampawa Kawiny. Joylene previously painted at Tjurma Homelands Arts and Crafts Centre. Today she paints at Tjala Arts and the APY Studio in Adelaide, continuing in the footsteps of her late grandmother and mother in telling the Seven Sisters story and how it relates to kapi tjukula (many rock holes).