Sarrita King | 'Earth Elements, 2026' | 40x60cm

Code: DDSK26127

Artist: Sarrita King

Title: Earth Elements

Area: Darwin, NT

Community: Gurindji / Waanyi

Medium: Acrylic On Linen

Size: 40x60cm

Year: 2026

Sarrita King's Earth Elements works draw on the waters of the Northern Territory, the freshwater pools, rivers and soakages that run inland before meeting the salt water of the coast. Grown from her life in Darwin, these paintings read the landscape through water rather than around it, following its movement through the Territory's seasonal extremes, held still in the dry and rising to reshape the ground entirely when the wet arrives. The series belongs to what she calls the language of the earth, where dots and dashes work like an old code across the surface, drawing back the ground to show what lies beneath it.

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.