{"product_id":"sarrita-king-ngurra-2025-30x60cm","title":"Sarrita King | 'Ngurra, 2025' | 30x60cm","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eCode:\u003c\/strong\u003e DDSK25241\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 30x60cm\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\u003e — Country. The word holds everything: the land beneath one's feet, the ancestors who walked it, the stories etched into its surface, and the belonging that flows between a person and place. In this work, Sarrita King offers her translation of that immense concept, rendering Country in warm ochres and apricot light, as though the canvas itself were sun-baked earth seen from far above.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eConcentric rings ripple outward across the surface, drawn in patient, fine white linework that gathers and disperses like breath. These radiating forms suggest waterholes, the gathering places that have sustained life across millennia and the topographic contours of land softened by wind and time. Between them, fractured pale veins crack across the composition like dry riverbeds, lightning seen from the heavens, or the fissures that open in clay after the wet retreats. It is a landscape that holds multiple readings at once.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eKing grew up in Darwin, daughter of the late William King Jungala and a proud Gurindji Waanyi woman whose ancestral Country stretches from Katherine through the desert to Mt Isa. Her practice has long been concerned with what she calls the \u003cstrong\u003elanguage of the earth, \u003c\/strong\u003ethe idea that every ripple, burn mark, sand formation and crack is the land speaking, and her role is to listen and translate. \u003cem\u003eNgurra\u003c\/em\u003e sits squarely in that lineage of looking: an aerial, almost cartographic meditation on how Country reveals itself to those who pay attention.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThere is a hum of warmth here, a glow that suggests late afternoon light pooling across a vast plain. The repetition of circular forms feels almost meditative, drawing the eye into and through the surface. What at first appears as pattern slowly resolves into something more intimate — the memory of a place, the echo of an ancestor's footstep, the quiet assertion that this earth is known, named, and loved.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Dreamtime Distribution","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50870360080551,"sku":"DDSK25241","price":695.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0568\/0001\/8599\/files\/2026-04-01_12172400002-scan_2026-04-01_00-56-33_web2000.jpg?v=1781067529","url":"https:\/\/sarritaking.art\/products\/sarrita-king-ngurra-2025-30x60cm","provider":"Sarrita King Art","version":"1.0","type":"link"}