{"product_id":"sarrita-king-lightning-2026-60x60cm","title":"Sarrita King | 'Lightning, 2026' | 60x60cm","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eCode:\u003c\/strong\u003e DDSK25356\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 60x60cm\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eYear:\u003c\/strong\u003e 2026\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003chr\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eSarrita King grew up in Darwin, where the wet season arrives with a violence that shakes the horizon. Her \u003cem\u003eLightning\u003c\/em\u003e series returns to those tropical storms. The memory of white bolts splitting the sky, and the strange calm that follows.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eHere the canvas is broken into cells by heavy blue veins. Each cell holds its own burst of light. Fine white strokes radiate outward from a central point, the way lightning forks and forks again before it hits the ground. The effect is close to cracked earth seen from above. King has spoken about this doubling before. Lightning across the sky reads like the fissures that heat leaves in dry clay. Sky and ground answering each other.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe palette stays cool. Slate, storm blue, chalk white, a wash of pale grey where the rain thins out. Look closely and the marks shift between water and electricity. Rain sheeting sideways. Static crackling through humid air. The heavier arteries between the cells feel like the pause between strikes, when the whole landscape holds its breath.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eKing is the daughter of the late William King Jungala and a proud Gurindji Waanyi woman. She learned dotting from her father and then pushed it into her own territory, working with unorthodox tools to build these charged, aerial surfaces. Her painting sits inside a wider idea she calls the language of the earth. Every crack and ripple is the country speaking.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eA quiet, electric work. It reads differently in morning light than it does at dusk, which feels right for a painting about weather.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Dreamtime Distribution","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51516972925161,"sku":"DDSK25356","price":1495.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0769\/0993\/6873\/files\/DDSK25356-sarrita_king-2026-lightning-60x60-1495--scan_2026-05-29_01-25-49_web2000.jpg?v=1784007088","url":"https:\/\/cag.art\/products\/sarrita-king-lightning-2026-60x60cm","provider":"Canberra Art Gallery","version":"1.0","type":"link"}