Ngurra
Original painting · 120 × 90 cm
$4,995
Artwork details
- Title
- Ngurra
- Dimensions
- 120 × 90 cm
- Medium
- Acrylic on linen
- Reference
- DDSK26118
Artwork story
Ngurra is a Gurindji word meaning Country, home or place, and in Sarrita King's work it carries the weight of connection and memory rather than a single mapped location. These paintings are not a view of one site but a response to the rhythms that run through the land itself: the cracking of dry earth, the movement of water, shifting vegetation, pathways worn into the ground and the sudden charge of tropical weather over the Northern Territory. Through layered dots, fine lines and repeating circular forms, King builds a surface where different traces of Country seem to surface and recede, so that the painting feels less like a single scene than an accumulation of place over time.
Artist details
- Artist
- Sarrita King
- Born
- 1988
- Area
- Darwin, NT
- Community
- Gurindji / Waanyi
Career highlights
- 2023 - Exhibiting artist at Sculpture by the Sea, Bondi.
- 2023 - Finalist, Muswellbrook Art Prize.
- 2022 - Work featured in Connection: Songlines from Australia’s First Peoples at the National Museum of Australia, Canberra.
- 2022 - Finalist, Alice Prize.
- 2017 - Lightning selected for the Samsung Collection on The Frame.
- 2014-2017 - Designed and collaborated on four Indigenous guernseys for North Melbourne Football Club.
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