{"product_id":"sarrita-king-ngurra-2026-90x120cm","title":"Sarrita King | 'Ngurra, 2026' | 90x120cm","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eCode:\u003c\/strong\u003e DDSK26044\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 90x120cm\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eYear:\u003c\/strong\u003e 2026\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 \u003c\/strong\u003eis one of the most resonant words in the lexicon of the Australian desert. For Sarrita King, daughter of the late William King Jungala and granddaughter of the Gurindji people who led the Wave Hill Walk-Off, the word carries the weight of inheritance: the land her family fought to have recognised, the tropical north where she grew up, and the desert routes that thread between Katherine and Mount Isa.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eHere, King turns the canvas into an aerial map of olive-gold earth. Sweeping panels of soft yellow-green are incised with countless fine radiating lines, each one fanning out from a quiet centre like the spokes of a seed-head, the ripples around a waterhole, or the eddies of wind across a dune crest. These concentric hubs — five of them scattered across the composition, read as \u003cstrong\u003egathering places\u003c\/strong\u003e, points where life converges and disperses again. Between them, the panels meet along soft, organic seams: the tessellation of Country seen from far above, where one place ends and another begins without ever truly breaking.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe work belongs to King's ongoing meditation on the \u003cem\u003elanguage of the earth, \u003c\/em\u003eher overarching conviction that every crack, ripple and grain is the land speaking, and that her role is simply to translate. There is no dramatic strike of lightning here, no flame; instead, a stilled, sun-bleached quietude. The palette is the colour of spinifex country in the late dry, of dust catching the last light, of grasslands flattened by the wind into something close to gold.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eWhat emerges is an image of \u003cem\u003ebelonging\u003c\/em\u003e rather than incident — Country breathing, patterned, alive with the slow accumulation of presence. \u003cem\u003eNgurra\u003c\/em\u003e is not a place King points to on a map; it is the felt geography of ancestors, family and continuity, rendered with the patience of someone who has learned to listen before she paints.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Dreamtime Distribution","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50870359949479,"sku":"DDSK26044","price":4695.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0568\/0001\/8599\/files\/DDSK26044_-_SK_-_Lightning_-_90x120cm_-_2026--scan_2026-04-26_04-59-48-1_web2000.jpg?v=1781067525","url":"https:\/\/sarritaking.art\/products\/sarrita-king-ngurra-2026-90x120cm","provider":"Sarrita King Art","version":"1.0","type":"link"}