Sarrita King | 'Ngurra, 2026' | 75x75cm

Code: DDSK26119

Artist: Sarrita King

Title: Ngurra

Area: Darwin, NT

Community: Gurindji / Waanyi

Medium: Acrylic On Linen

Size: 75x75cm

Year: 2026

Ngurra is a Gurindji word meaning Country, home or place, and the works in this series carry that meaning rather than depicting any single site. They answer the rhythms that run across the land Sarrita King knows: the cracking of dry earth, the movement of water, shifting vegetation, pathways worn into the ground and the sudden charge of tropical weather. Rather than a view, Ngurra is a feeling of belonging built in layers, memory and family folded into the land itself and allowed to surface gradually through pattern.

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.