Sarrita King | 'Earth Elements, 2025' | 30x60cm

Code: DDSK25183

Artist: Sarrita King

Title: Earth Elements

Area: Darwin, NT

Community: Gurindji / Waanyi

Medium: Acrylic On Linen

Size: 30x60cm

Year: 2025

Sarrita King's Earth Elements series follows the waters of the Northern Territory, the freshwater pools, rivers and soakages that gather inland, and the salt water they meet at the coast. Grown from her life in Darwin, where the wet and dry seasons reshape the country in turn, these works read every passage of blue as water moving through the land. Deep blue stands for the sea, softer and greyer blues for fresh water, and where they meet the canvas records that joining, the push and pull of river mouths and floodplains as one body of water runs into another.

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.