Sarrita King | 'Earth Elements, 2026' | 90x120cm

Code: DDSK26117

Artist: Sarrita King

Title: Earth Elements

Area: Darwin, NT

Community: Gurindji / Waanyi

Medium: Acrylic On Linen

Size: 90x120cm

Year: 2026

Sarrita King's Earth Elements works draw on the waters of the Northern Territory, the freshwater pools, rivers and soakages that gather inland and the salt water they meet at the coast. Growing up in Darwin, she watched these waters move through the Top End's extremes of season, tranquil through the dry months and then rising to remake the land when the wet arrives. The series reads this movement as a kind of language written across the ground, layers of dotting and fine lines standing in for the paths water carves and the pools it leaves behind.

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.