Sarrita King | 'Ngurra-$9995, 2026' | 120x180cm

Code: DDSK26129

Artist: Sarrita King

Title: Ngurra-$9995

Area: Darwin, NT

Community: Gurindji / Waanyi

Medium: Acrylic On Linen

Size: 120x180cm

Year: 2026

Ngurra is a Gurindji word for Country, home or place, and in Sarrita King's hands it becomes less a picture of one site than a record of connection and memory. These works answer the rhythms that run across the land itself: the cracking of dry earth, the pull of water finding its way, vegetation shifting with the seasons, pathways opening across the ground, and the sudden charge of tropical weather rolling in. It is painted belonging rather than mapped geography, built from the accumulated sense of a land known over time.

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.