Sarrita King | 'Ngurra, 2026' | 120x120cm

Code: DDSK26106

Artist: Sarrita King

Title: Ngurra

Area: Darwin, NT

Community: Gurindji / Waanyi

Medium: Acrylic On Linen

Size: 120x120cm

Year: 2026

Ngurra is the Gurindji word for Country, home or place, and this series carries that meaning rather than any single location. Sarrita King builds these paintings from the rhythms she has watched move across the land throughout her life in the Northern Territory: the cracking of dry earth, the pull and gather of water, vegetation shifting with the seasons, pathways worn into the ground, and the sudden charge of tropical weather rolling in off the coast. The works are a record of connection and memory rather than a map of one place.

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.