Sarrita King | 'Ngurra, 2025' | 90x210cm

Code: DDSK25344

Artist: Sarrita King

Area: Darwin, NT

Community: Gurindji / Waanyi

Title: Ngurra

Medium: Acrylic On Canvas

Size: 90x210cm

Year: 2025

Ngurra — meaning home, camp, Country — unfolds across this expansive canvas as a living topography seen from above. Sarrita King draws the viewer into a green world of overlapping circular forms, each radiating fine concentric lines like the rings of ancient trees, the spiralling currents of waterholes, or the patient weather of stone. The palette is unusual in her oeuvre: deep mossy greens, olive, lichen-yellow and shadowed forest tones, lit from within by golden centres that pulse like sunlight breaking through canopy or surfacing from beneath water.

Threading between these radiant suns are the cracked, pale lines that have become a signature of King's visual vocabulary — the fissures of dried earth, the forked path of lightning across a wet-season sky, the meandering capillaries of waterways carved into Country over millennia. Here they form a delicate web, binding the spiralling forms into a single connected whole. Nothing exists in isolation; every centre is linked to every other by these tracing veins, an intricate map of relationship.

King speaks of the Language of the Earth — the idea that the land itself is forever communicating, and that her role as an artist is to translate. Ngurra is one such translation: an aerial reading of home as both place and pattern. The concentric rings hold the memory of gathering places and the steady presence of water; the cracked lines carry the energy of storm and the slow architecture of dry season earth. Together they describe a Country that is at once specific and infinite.

Inheriting techniques from her father William King Jungala and refining them with her own meditative discipline, King layers each fine stroke by hand, building density that seems to breathe. The result is a work of quiet intensity — green, generous, deeply rooted — a contemporary articulation of belonging that honours ancestral pathways while looking outward to the world.