Sarrita King | 'Earth Elements, 2026' | 120x180cm

Code: DDSK26110Artist: Sarrita KingTitle: Earth ElementsArea: Darwin, NTCommunity: Gurindji / WaanyiMedium: Acrylic On LinenSize: 120x180cmYear: 2026 Sarrita King's Earth Elements works follow the waters of the Northern Territory, from the freshwater pools, rivers and soakages inland to the salt water of the coast where they finally meet. Growing up in Darwin, King watched these systems shift with the seasons, holding still through the dry months and then rising to reshape the ground entirely when the wet arrives. The series reads her blues as water itself, moving, gathering and travelling across the land she knows. Sarrita King is a proud Gurindji Waanyi woman, born in Adelaide in 1988. She is the younger sister of Tarisse King and daughter of the late William King Jungala, whose Gurindji people led the famous Wave Hill Walk-Off — Australia's first successful land rights claim. Growing up in Darwin, Sarrita was immersed in the extreme weather and primal landscapes of the tropical north, which became the foundation of her art. She began painting at 16 and combines traditional Aboriginal dotting techniques with unorthodox methods inherited from her father, creating works of extraordinary depth capturing lightning storms, fire, sand dunes, and the textures of the earth from aerial perspectives. Her art is a fusion of past and present — the next generation keeping ancestral narrative alive.