{"product_id":"sarrita-king-ngurra-2023-90x180cm","title":"Sarrita King | 'Ngurra, 2023' | 90x180cm","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eCode:\u003c\/strong\u003e DDSK23155\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eArtist:\u003c\/strong\u003e Sarrita King\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eTitle:\u003c\/strong\u003e Ngurra\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eArea:\u003c\/strong\u003e Darwin, NT\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eCommunity:\u003c\/strong\u003e Gurindji \/ Waanyi\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 90x180cm\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eYear:\u003c\/strong\u003e 2023\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003chr\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eSarrita King paints the earth as a living document. \u003cem\u003eNgurra\u003c\/em\u003e means home, or Country, and here that home glows in warm ochres and pale gold. The surface reads like aerial topography. Concentric whirls mark waterholes or gathering points. Fine white lines fracture across the canvas like the cracked skin of a dry lakebed after the wet season has passed.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis is the kind of work Sarrita has built her practice around. She grew up in the tropical north, watching storms split the sky and the land respond in kind. Her father, a Gurindji man, taught her that the warmth of a fire and the meander of a river belong to the same continuous conversation. She calls it the language of the earth. Her paintings are translations of it.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eLook closely at the swirling brushwork beneath the cracking. It moves the way wind moves over sand. The pale centres of each circle pull the eye downward, as if you are standing above a vast plain and watching it breathe. There are no human figures here. The marks themselves carry the human presence, layered into the country the way footprints layer into dust over generations.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSarrita combines fine dot work with broader, unorthodox techniques passed down from her father. The result has texture you can almost feel under your fingers. \u003cem\u003eNgurra\u003c\/em\u003e is quieter than her lightning paintings and warmer than her sand dune studies. It sits in the space where memory and geography meet. A work that rewards slow looking, and one that settles a room with its golden, sunlit calm.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Dreamtime Distribution","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50914760786087,"sku":"DDSK23155","price":5995.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0568\/0001\/8599\/files\/DDSK23155-Sarrita_King-2023-Ngurra-90x180-1_web2000.jpg?v=1782443937","url":"https:\/\/sarritaking.art\/products\/sarrita-king-ngurra-2023-90x180cm","provider":"Sarrita King Art","version":"1.0","type":"link"}