{"product_id":"sarrita-king-earth-elements-2025-30x60cm-1","title":"Sarrita King | 'Earth Elements, 2025' | 30x60cm","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eCode:\u003c\/strong\u003e DDSK25183\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eArtist:\u003c\/strong\u003e Sarrita King\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eTitle:\u003c\/strong\u003e Earth Elements\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eArea:\u003c\/strong\u003e Darwin, NT\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eCommunity:\u003c\/strong\u003e Gurindji \/ Waanyi\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eMedium:\u003c\/strong\u003e Acrylic On Canvas\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eSize:\u003c\/strong\u003e 30x60cm\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eYear:\u003c\/strong\u003e 2025\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003chr\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eSarrita King paints the ground as if seen from the wing of a low plane. \u003cem\u003eEarth Elements\u003c\/em\u003e reads as a stretch of Country in muted teal and slate, threaded with pale currents of white dotting that ripple across the surface like windblown sand or the slow shift of tide over shallows.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eLong diagonal ridges cut through the composition. They act as spines, or perhaps the memory of a dry watercourse, dividing the field into panels of finely worked texture. Within each panel the dots gather and disperse in tiny eddies. Look closely and small currents appear, moving in different directions like grains caught in separate breezes.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis is part of Sarrita's ongoing meditation on the earth as a language. Every ripple, crack and drift of sand is a word in that vocabulary. She grew up in Darwin, watching the extreme weather and open ground of the tropical north, and her aerial view carries that childhood reading of the land. Her father, William King Jungala, was a Gurindji man of the Wave Hill Walk-Off generation. The techniques she uses were partly his, passed down and adapted.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe palette here is unusual for her. Cooler than the ochre works, closer to the surface of water at dusk or the shadow side of a dune at first light. The whites feel mineral rather than bright. There is a stillness across the whole canvas, but also a quiet movement, as if the ground itself is breathing.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eA work to sit with. The longer you look, the more the surface opens into weather, distance and the slow patience of the land.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Dreamtime Distribution","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51486304076009,"sku":"DDSK25183","price":750.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0769\/0993\/6873\/files\/DDSK25183-Sarrita_King-2025-Earth_Elements-30x60-1_web2000.jpg?v=1783215157","url":"https:\/\/cag.art\/products\/sarrita-king-earth-elements-2025-30x60cm-1","provider":"Canberra Art Gallery","version":"1.0","type":"link"}