{"product_id":"sarrita-king-earth-elements-2025-65x105cm","title":"Sarrita King | 'Earth Elements, 2025' | 65x105cm","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eCode:\u003c\/strong\u003e DDSK25358\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eArtist:\u003c\/strong\u003e Sarrita King\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\u003eTitle:\u003c\/strong\u003e Earth Elements\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 65x105cm\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eYear:\u003c\/strong\u003e 2025\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003chr\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIn \u003cem\u003eearth elements\u003c\/em\u003e, Sarrita King turns her gaze downward and inward, reading the land as if from the wing of a low-flying bird. A vast field of fine dotting in slate, steel and silvered blue moves across the canvas in tidal rhythms, broken by the soft pulse of concentric circles that ripple outward from the upper third of the work. These rings echo the form of a waterhole, a meeting point, a centre of gravity around which the landscape organises itself.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eKing belongs to a generation carrying forward an ancestral narrative through contemporary means. The daughter of the late William King Jungala and a proud Gurindji Waanyi woman, she grew up in the tropical north, where the sky cracks open with monsoonal storms and the land breathes in heat shimmer. Her \u003cem\u003eEarth Elements\u003c\/em\u003e works distil that immersion: the raw textures and forms of the Australian landscape seen from above, where dried riverbeds, dune fields and rock plates resolve into pattern.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eLook closely and the surface reveals its layered making. Faint vertical seams travel the length of the canvas like the ghosts of watercourses or wind-carved channels, while the dots themselves cluster and disperse in subtle currents. The cooler upper register suggests sky meeting earth, or perhaps a deeper body of water held within the country; the warmer lower expanse settles into something more grounded, more tactile.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThis is what King calls the \u003cstrong\u003elanguage of the earth, \u003c\/strong\u003eevery ripple, crack and granular shift understood as the land speaking. Her dotting technique, inherited and reinvented from her father's unorthodox methods, is less decoration than transcription. Each mark records a moment of attention, building toward a meditative whole that holds both intimacy and immensity.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eA quiet, contemplative work, \u003cem\u003eearth elements\u003c\/em\u003e invites slow looking. The longer the eye lingers, the more the surface deepens, until the canvas feels less like a picture of country and more like a window onto it.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Dreamtime Distribution","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51138836136169,"sku":"DDSK25358","price":2695.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0769\/0993\/6873\/files\/DDSK25358-Sarrita_King-2025-earth_elements-65x105-scan_2026-06-01_12-25-24_web2000.jpg?v=1780311682","url":"https:\/\/cag.art\/products\/sarrita-king-earth-elements-2025-65x105cm","provider":"Canberra Art Gallery","version":"1.0","type":"link"}