Sarrita King | 'Earth Elements, 2026' | 105x105cm

Code: DDSK26062

Artist: Sarrita King

Title: Earth Elements

Area: Darwin, NT

Community: Gurindji / Waanyi

Medium: Acrylic On Canvas

Size: 105x105cm

Year: 2026

Sarrita King reads the land from above. Earth Elements looks down on Country the way a hawk might, tracking the slow geometry of dunes, rock and dry creek beds.

The upper half hums with pale linework over a smoked, ochre ground. Faceted shapes spread like cracked clay or the cells of a salt pan seen from altitude. A circular form glows in the top left, soft as a sun bleached stone. Tens of thousands of fine dots build the surface, a technique she learned young and made her own.

Below, the painting cools into blue. Long ribbons sweep across the canvas in tidal bands. These are her dune lines and dry watercourses, the wind written into the earth. A second circle anchors the lower right, dark and quiet, holding the rhythm of the work.

Sarrita grew up in Darwin, daughter of William King Jungala and granddaughter to the Gurindji story of Wave Hill. Her father taught her that the land carries a connection felt in fire, in rain, in the warmth under bare feet. She calls this her Language of the Earth, the idea that every ripple and crack is the country speaking.

What stays with you is the contrast. Warm ground meeting cool water. Hard edges softened by the slow accumulation of dots. The eye lifts and falls across the canvas like a body of weather moving over open ground. It is a contemporary aerial portrait of an ancient surface, made by an artist still translating what she sees.