Raylene’s paintings are informed by her family’s strong connection to country and their history (both their ancestral Yankunytjatjara cultural history and more recent family history) associated with the rugged desert country around Indulkana, on the APY Lands.

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 Betty and Raylene have been working together on large-scale collaborative paintings. Through the process of working together with her daughter on collaborative paintings, Betty continues the tradition of older women passing on their important knowledge of Tjukurpa (Anangu cultural stories) and Ngura (Country) to younger women.

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

Iwantja Arts is an artist studio located within the remote Indigenous community of Indulkana, on the Anangu Pitjantjatjara Yankunytjatjara (APY) Lands. Iwantja Arts is an Aboriginal corporation owned and governed by a board of directors. The art centre aims to encourage and support artistic excellence and cultural development within the community by providing opportunities, career development, and economic independence for practicing artists.