Sarrita King | 'Earth Elements, 2026' | 90x180cm

Code: DDSK26124

Artist: Sarrita King

Title: Earth Elements

Area: Darwin, NT

Community: Gurindji / Waanyi

Medium: Acrylic On Linen

Size: 90x180cm

Year: 2026

Sarrita King's Earth Elements works take their subject from the waters of the Northern Territory, the freshwater pools, rivers and soakages that gather inland and the salt water they meet along the coast. Growing up in Darwin, King watched these waters move through the Top End's seasonal extremes, held still and dark through the dry months, then rising to reshape the land entirely when the wet arrives. The series reads her blues as water itself, from the deep weight of the sea to the paler currents of fresh water threading through it, with green marking the Country the water travels through.

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.