{"product_id":"sarrita-king-ngurra-2025-20x60cm","title":"Sarrita King | 'Ngurra, 2025' | 20x60cm","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eCode:\u003c\/strong\u003e DDSK25343\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eArtist:\u003c\/strong\u003e Sarrita King\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\u003eTitle:\u003c\/strong\u003e Ngurra\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 20x60cm\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eYear:\u003c\/strong\u003e 2025\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003chr\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eNgurra, \u003c\/em\u003emeaning \u003cstrong\u003ehome\u003c\/strong\u003e, \u003cstrong\u003ecamp\u003c\/strong\u003e, \u003cstrong\u003eCountry, i\u003c\/strong\u003es Sarrita King's enduring conversation with the land that shaped her. Across this elongated canvas, fine concentric rings pulse outward like tree rings, like ripples in a waterhole, like the slow breath of the earth itself. They are anchored at either end of the work, drawing the eye through a vast topography of cracked, branching lines that travel the length of the surface in luminous turquoise against a deep midnight ground.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eKing grew up immersed in the dramatic weather and primal landscapes of the tropical north, and her practice has long been an act of translation, what she calls the \u003cem\u003elanguage of the earth\u003c\/em\u003e. Here, that language reads as something between an aerial map and a thunderclap. The radiating circles suggest gathering places, the still centres around which life orbits. The fractured veins between them recall lightning splintering across the Darwin sky, the cracked clay of a dry season floodplain, the branching root systems beneath our feet. These are the patterns King has spent her career attuning herself to: marks that look like weather, like geology, like memory.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe restraint of the palette, two voices only, deep blue and electric cyan, gives the work the quiet authority of night. Fine parallel hatching pulls across the surface like rain seen sideways, or wind moving over water. There is a sense of standing at the edge of a storm, or above Country at dusk, watching the bones of the land glow with their own faint current.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAs the daughter of the late William King Jungala and the younger sister of Tarisse King, Sarrita carries a powerful artistic inheritance, blending traditional dotting with the unorthodox techniques her father passed on. \u003cem\u003eNgurra\u003c\/em\u003e is the next generation listening and answering, in a language older than any of us.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Dreamtime Distribution","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50870360113319,"sku":"DDSK25343","price":595.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0568\/0001\/8599\/files\/2026-04-29_10132400004-scan_2026-04-29_02-30-23_copy_web2000.jpg?v=1781067531","url":"https:\/\/sarritaking.art\/products\/sarrita-king-ngurra-2025-20x60cm","provider":"Sarrita King Art","version":"1.0","type":"link"}