Sarrita King | 'Earth Elements, 2026' | 90x180cm

Code: DDSK26086

Artist: Sarrita King

Title: Earth Elements

Area: Darwin, NT

Community: Gurindji / Waanyi

Medium: Acrylic On Canvas

Size: 90x180cm

Year: 2026

Sarrita King's Earth Elements paintings follow the waters of the Northern Territory: the freshwater pools, rivers and soakages that run inland, and the salt water they meet along the coast. Grown up in Darwin among the extremes of the tropical north, King paints these waters as they move through the seasons - held still and quiet through the dry, then rising to reshape the land entirely when the wet arrives. The blues she uses are never decorative; they are a record of where fresh water and salt water meet, and of the green country that borders them.

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.