{"product_id":"sarrita-king-earth-elements-2026-60x120cm","title":"Sarrita King | 'Earth Elements, 2026' | 60x120cm","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eCode:\u003c\/strong\u003e DDSK26048\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eArtist:\u003c\/strong\u003e Sarrita King\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong style=\"font-size: 0.875rem;\"\u003eTitle:\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 0.875rem;\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 0.875rem;\"\u003eEarth Elements\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eSize:\u003c\/strong\u003e 60x120cm\u003cstrong\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\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\u003eMedium:\u003c\/strong\u003e Acrylic On Canvas\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eYear:\u003c\/strong\u003e 2026\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003chr\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eA diagonal ridge cleaves the canvas in two, separating a luminous expanse of teal from a deeper, midnight trough below. Across both fields, countless fine dots ripple in horizontal currents — the kind of patterning the wind leaves on water, or on sand seen from high above. Pale concentric blooms float across the surface like waterholes glimpsed from a small plane: one solitary in the upper field, three clustered in the lower, glowing as though lit from within.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThis is Sarrita King's \u003cem\u003eEarth Elements\u003c\/em\u003e sensibility distilled into cool, oceanic registers. Where her work often draws on the heat-cracked ochres of the desert, here the palette shifts to the saturated blues of the tropical north she calls home — Larrakia Country, where the wet season transforms the land into something fluid and reflective. The diagonal sweep through the centre suggests a coastline, a dune crest, or the meeting line between two weather systems, that liminal seam where one element gives way to another.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eKing began painting at sixteen, learning unorthodox dotting techniques from her late father, William King Jungala, a Gurindji man whose people led the historic Wave Hill Walk-Off. From him she inherited a way of seeing the land as something deeply legible — every ripple, crack and bloom a kind of script. She speaks of her practice as translation: the earth has its own visual language, and her canvases are her attempt to render it readable.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe aerial vantage is unmistakably hers. There is no horizon line to anchor the viewer, no sky above and ground below — only the patterned skin of Country, breathing. Read the pale circles as waterholes, as gathering places, as the soft lungs of the landscape; read the long ridge as the spine that organises everything around it. \u003cstrong\u003eThe result is meditative and quietly charged\u003c\/strong\u003e, a work that rewards slow looking and seems to shift in temperature the longer one stands before it.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Sarrita King","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50981215076585,"sku":"DDSK26048","price":2995.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0769\/0993\/6873\/files\/DDSK26048-sarrita_king-2026-earth_elements-60x120-2995-scan_2026-05-06_13-03-14.fronttif_web2000.jpg?v=1778222337","url":"https:\/\/cag.art\/products\/sarrita-king-earth-elements-2026-60x120cm","provider":"Canberra Art Gallery","version":"1.0","type":"link"}