{"product_id":"sarrita-king-lightning-2016-90x120cm","title":"Sarrita King | 'Lightning, 2016' | 90x120cm","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eCode:\u003c\/strong\u003e DDSK16101\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eArtist:\u003c\/strong\u003e Sarrita King\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\u003eTitle:\u003c\/strong\u003e Lightning\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 90x120cm\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eYear:\u003c\/strong\u003e 2016\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003chr\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAcross this canvas, the sky cracks open. \u003cstrong\u003eLightning\u003c\/strong\u003e belongs to Sarrita King's signature meditation on the electrical storms that haunt Darwin's tropical wet season, those volatile nights when the heavens split into rivers of white-hot light and the air hums with charge. Here, that fracturing energy is rendered as an aerial map of fissures, each black seam tracing the path of a strike as it forks and forks again across the dark.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe palette burns. Deep oxblood and crimson smoulder beneath flares of ochre and olive, suggesting both the bruised colour of a storm-lit horizon and the parched, cracked earth that lightning so often resembles from above. Sarrita has often spoken of this twinning, the way a sky splintered by lightning mirrors the dry land below, as if the same primal language of rupture runs through everything. In this work, sky and ground collapse into one continuous skin.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe mark-making is unmistakably hers: dense, radiating strokes that fan outward from hidden centres, built up in the unorthodox dotting technique she inherited and reinvented from her late father, William King Jungala. Each cell of colour pulses with its own weather. Look closely and you can almost hear the work, the hiss of driving rain, the dry roar of thunder, and then the strange hush between strikes where, as Sarrita describes it, \u003cem\u003eelements gracefully twist and turn\u003c\/em\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eA proud Gurindji Waanyi woman raised among the extreme weather of the Top End, Sarrita carries an ancestral narrative into contemporary form. Her storms are not only memory but inheritance, the earth speaking in its own visual tongue, and the painter listening. \u003cstrong\u003eLightning\u003c\/strong\u003e is a study in intensity and stillness held inside the same frame: chaos beautifully patterned, the moment of the strike suspended forever across the canvas.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Dreamtime Distribution","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51208707899625,"sku":"DDSK16101","price":4995.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0769\/0993\/6873\/files\/DDSK16101-sarrita_king-2016-Lightning-90x120-1_web2000.jpg?v=1781135174","url":"https:\/\/cag.art\/products\/sarrita-king-lightning-2016-90x120cm","provider":"Canberra Art Gallery","version":"1.0","type":"link"}