{"product_id":"william-king-jungala-earth-cycles-2007-140x230cm","title":"William King Jungala | 'Earth Cycles, 2007' | 140x230cm","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eCode:\u003c\/strong\u003e DDWK07101\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eArtist:\u003c\/strong\u003e William King Jungala\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eArea:\u003c\/strong\u003e Darwin \/ Katherine, NT\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eCommunity:\u003c\/strong\u003e Gurindji\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eTitle:\u003c\/strong\u003e Earth Cycles\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 140x230cm\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eYear:\u003c\/strong\u003e 2007\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003chr\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAcross this expansive canvas, \u003cstrong\u003eWilliam King Jungala\u003c\/strong\u003e conjures the living skin of Country — a vast field of densely worked dots that shimmer like weathered stone, sun-bleached earth, or the mineral crust of a dry riverbed seen from above. The surface vibrates with countless tiny marks, each one a quiet pulse in the larger rhythm of the land.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eA single sinuous line travels diagonally across the work, cutting through the dotted plain like a fissure in ancient ground. It reads at once as a watercourse threading its way through stone, a crack opening in sun-baked clay, and an ancestral pathway tracing the long memory of Country. This is the central conversation of \u003cem\u003eEarth Cycles\u003c\/em\u003e: the slow, patient turning of seasons, the rise and fall of waters, the way the land carries the marks of everything that has moved across it.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eJungala was a Gurindji man whose people are remembered for the Wave Hill Walk-Off, the action that became Australia's first successful Indigenous land rights claim. That deep relationship to ground, to belonging, to the act of standing on one's own Country, hums quietly beneath his practice. His paintings are not maps in the literal sense but felt impressions of place: tonal, atmospheric, attentive to the way earth breathes and changes.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe restrained monochrome palette — silvers, charcoals, bone whites, strips the work back to something elemental. Without the distraction of colour, the eye is drawn into texture and rhythm, into the meditative labour of mark-making itself. Completed in the final year of his life, this is a major late work by an artist whose vision now lives on through his daughters Sarrita and Tarisse King, who inherited his techniques and his reverence for Country. \u003cem\u003eEarth Cycles\u003c\/em\u003e stands as both a landscape and a legacy.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Dreamtime Distribution","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51257779716329,"sku":"DDWK07101","price":55000.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0769\/0993\/6873\/files\/DDWK07101-WK-Earth_Cycles-140x230cm-2007-1_web2000.jpg?v=1781220826","url":"https:\/\/cag.art\/products\/william-king-jungala-earth-cycles-2007-140x230cm","provider":"Canberra Art Gallery","version":"1.0","type":"link"}