{"product_id":"sarrita-king-lightning-2008-190x400cm","title":"Sarrita King | 'Lightning, 2008' | 190x400cm","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eCode:\u003c\/strong\u003e DDSK08009\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eArtist:\u003c\/strong\u003e Sarrita King\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eTitle:\u003c\/strong\u003e Lightning\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\u003eSize:\u003c\/strong\u003e 190x400cm\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eYear:\u003c\/strong\u003e 2008\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003chr\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eSarrita King grew up in Darwin. The tropical storms of the Top End are part of her bones, and this monumental canvas pulls those memories onto linen at full scale.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSilver light spreads across the surface like a sky just before the strike. Fine dotwork shimmers in close patterned fields, holding the charged stillness of humid air. Then the lines arrive. Dark veins of lightning fork and branch across the work, splitting the sky into vast plates. Look closer and those same fractures read as cracked earth seen from above. King paints this doubling on purpose. The crack of lightning above mirrors the crack of dry ground below. Sky and Country answer each other.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis is a defining theme for the artist. Lightning storms over Darwin shaped her childhood imagination, and the series translates their force into something you can stand inside. The scale here matters. At nearly four metres wide, the work surrounds the viewer the way weather does.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eKing learned to paint at sixteen, working alongside her father William King Jungala. She combines fine traditional dotting with the unorthodox mark making he taught her. The result sits between tradition and her own contemporary language. Her wider practice, which she calls the Language of the Earth, treats every ripple, burn mark and fracture as the land speaking. \u003cem\u003eLightning\u003c\/em\u003e is one of its loudest sentences.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe palette stays close to storm light. Pale silvers, soft greys, hints of blue and the dark graphite of the strikes themselves. Movement runs through the whole surface. You can almost hear the rain coming.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Dreamtime Distribution","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51269188419817,"sku":"DDSK08009","price":39000.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0769\/0993\/6873\/files\/DDSK08009-_Sarrita_King-2008-Lightning-190x400-1_web2000.jpg?v=1781348476","url":"https:\/\/cag.art\/products\/sarrita-king-lightning-2008-190x400cm","provider":"Canberra Art Gallery","version":"1.0","type":"link"}