Sarrita King | 'Ngurra, 2025' | 90x210cm

Code: DDSK25344

Artist: Sarrita King

Title: Ngurra

Area: Darwin, NT

Community: Gurindji / Waanyi

Medium: Acrylic On Linen

Size: 90x210cm

Year: 2025

Ngurra is a Gurindji word for Country, home or place, and it is the name Sarrita King gives to the paintings that carry her widest sense of belonging to the land. These works are not a view of one site but a response to the rhythms that run across Country as a whole - the cracking of dry earth, the movement of water, shifting vegetation, pathways worn into the ground and the sudden intensity of tropical weather. Built from layered dots, lines and repeating forms, they let different traces of Country surface gradually, as memory and connection rather than as a single fixed place.

Sarrita King is a proud Gurindji Waanyi woman, born in Adelaide in 1988. She is the younger sister of Tarisse King and daughter of the late William King Jungala, whose Gurindji people led the famous Wave Hill Walk-Off — Australia's first successful land rights claim. Growing up in Darwin, Sarrita was immersed in the extreme weather and primal landscapes of the tropical north, which became the foundation of her art. She began painting at 16 and combines traditional Aboriginal dotting techniques with unorthodox methods inherited from her father, creating works of extraordinary depth capturing lightning storms, fire, sand dunes, and the textures of the earth from aerial perspectives. Her art is a fusion of past and present — the next generation keeping ancestral narrative alive.