Sarrita King | 'Ngurra, 2026' | 40x40cm

Code: DDSK26104

Artist: Sarrita King

Title: Ngurra

Area: Darwin, NT

Community: Gurindji / Waanyi

Medium: Acrylic On Linen

Size: 40x40cm

Year: 2026

Sarrita King's Ngurra series takes its name from the Gurindji word for Country, home and place. These paintings are not a view of one site but an expression of connection and memory, answering the rhythms that run across the land: the cracking of dry earth, the movement of water, pathways worn into the ground and the sudden intensity of tropical weather. Through layers of fine mark making she builds a surface where different traces of Country seem to surface gradually, each one a record of belonging rather than a map.

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.