Sarrita King | 'Earth Elements, 2026' | 30x30cm

Code: DDSK26059

Artist: Sarrita King

Title: Earth Elements

Area: Darwin, NT

Community: Gurindji / Waanyi

Medium: Acrylic On Canvas

Size: 30x30cm

Year: 2026

Sarrita King's Earth Elements works follow the waters of the Northern Territory: the freshwater pools, rivers and soakages inland, and the salt water they meet along the coast. Grown up in Darwin and shaped by its wet and dry seasons, King reads every blue in these paintings as water rather than sky — deep blue for the sea, softer greyed blues for fresh water, and the meeting of the two wherever a river runs out to meet the tide. The series moves through the Territory's seasonal extremes, from water held still to water on the move.

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.