{"product_id":"sarrita-king-lightning-2024-90x150cm-1","title":"Sarrita King | 'Lightning, 2024' | 90x150cm","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eCode:\u003c\/strong\u003e DDSK24185\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 90x150cm\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eYear:\u003c\/strong\u003e 2024\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003chr\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAcross this expansive canvas, Sarrita King renders the electrical theatre of a tropical Top End storm. Jagged dark seams fork and branch across deep teal and midnight fields, the fractured geometry of \u003cem\u003eLightning\u003c\/em\u003e echoing the cracked earth below. King has often spoken of how a sky split by lightning resembles ground split by drought, two opposing elements drawing the same lines, the earth and atmosphere speaking in a shared visual grammar.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eGrowing up in Darwin, King was shaped by the primal weather systems that announce the wet season, towering thunderheads, sheet lightning illuminating the horizon for hours, and the percussive drumming of rain on tin roofs. The \u003cem\u003eLightning\u003c\/em\u003e series translates those embodied memories into paint. Here, dense fields of finely worked dotting build a shimmering, almost vibrating surface, suggesting both the static charge of the air before a strike and the curtain of driving rain that follows. The jagged seams divide the picture plane into organic cells, each radiating outward from a quiet centre, the calm eye within the chaos.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe palette is wholly nocturnal: deep cobalt, ocean teal, ink-black and flashes of brighter aqua where light briefly breaks through. Up close, the surface dissolves into thousands of individual marks; from a distance, those marks resolve into the broad sweep of weather seen from above, an aerial reading of Country that has become a hallmark of King's practice.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAs the daughter of the late William King Jungala and a proud Gurindji Waanyi woman, Sarrita carries forward a family painting language while charting her own course. She fuses the traditional dotting technique with unorthodox methods inherited from her father, producing works of unusual depth and movement. \u003cstrong\u003eLightning\u003c\/strong\u003e belongs to her broader meditation on the \u003cem\u003eLanguage of the Earth\u003c\/em\u003e — the idea that every crack, ripple and burst of light is the land communicating its story, if only we slow down enough to listen.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Dreamtime Distribution","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51151018590441,"sku":"DDSK24185","price":5995.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0769\/0993\/6873\/files\/DDSK24185-Sarrita_King-2024-Lightning-90x150-1-scan_2026-06-05_00-47-01_web2000.jpg?v=1780708396","url":"https:\/\/cag.art\/products\/sarrita-king-lightning-2024-90x150cm-1","provider":"Canberra Art Gallery","version":"1.0","type":"link"}