Sarrita King | 'Earth Elements, 2026' | 30x60cm

Code: DDSK26126

Artist: Sarrita King

Title: Earth Elements

Area: Darwin, NT

Community: Gurindji / Waanyi

Medium: Acrylic On Linen

Size: 30x60cm

Year: 2026

Sarrita King's Earth Elements works follow the waters of the Northern Territory, the freshwater pools, rivers and soakages that run inland and the salt water they meet along the coast. Deep blue stands for the sea, softer blues for fresh water, and where the two overlap the painting shows one running into the other, the way rivers and floodplains across the Top End empty out to meet the tide. Where green appears, it marks land, water meeting green Country. Built from King's layered dotting, the series tracks water through the Territory's seasonal extremes, held quiet through the dry, surging and reshaping the ground when the wet arrives.

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.