$1,000 AUD
Code: ASGTK20173
Artist: Tarisse King
Title: My Country
Medium: Acrylic on Linen
Size: 60x60cm
Year: 2020
$2,700 AUD
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Code: ASGTK20176
Artist: Tarisse King
Title: Untitled
Medium: Acrylic on Linen
Size: 60x120cm
Year: 2020
$1,300 AUD
Code: ASGTK20175
Artist: Tarisse King
Title: Untitled
Medium: Acrylic on Linen
Size: 60x60cm
Year: 2020
$5,000 AUD
Code: ASGS-TKSK-20003
Artist: Tarisse King & Sarrita King
Title: My Country's Story III
Medium: Sculpture, Metal, Patina, Black & Silver
Size: 99x55x12cm
Year: 2020
With this sculpture Tarisse & Sarrita wanted to translate their collaboration ‘My Country’s Story’ into a 3D object. The choice to use metal is a reflection on the strength and longevity of the Australian Indigenous culture and the stories passed down over the centuries. The natural tarnish & rust is a reflection of the age of the markings and long history of these stories.
TK&SK | My Country’s Story
This style is a collaborative combining Tarisse’s My Country style and Sarrita’s Language of the Earth style. The painting shows the tearing away of the land, specifically areas around Katherine to reveal the Earth’s story. The history of the land where we come from connects us to our family, our culture and all living things. Sarrita seeks to express her impression of the land and some of its stories. The symbols within the painting are patterns for the viewer to connect with but the layout of the painting has its own story.
Tarisse King | My Country
Driven to map the country around Katherine, where her ancestors once walked, Tarisse depicts land formations such as rivers, rock holes, billabongs, shelters, tracks and food sources. In this series, Tarisse visually explores the way her ancestors interacted and lived with the environment.
Tarisse composes traditional Aboriginal iconography in sharp white lines, circles, arcs and dots often upon a single colour canvas to create a bold aesthetic that has a foot in the contemporary art aesthetic and the traditional. Song lines that ancestors once walked run across the canvas in different directions, the spaces created by this are filled with concentric circles representing different family clans or ‘life forces’, symbols for food and shelter. Well balanced, the canvas has a graphic look and a contemporary feel, indicative of Tarisse’s ability to make the ancient appear new.
Sarrita King | Language of the Earth
This is the earth’s story. It is also the story of black and white upon the land and the history we have created and carved into it by our interactions with one another. The intersections of black and white culture and how they meet, creating a narrative in the land and in history, and then moving on in their individual and collaborative journeys are abstractly depicted. These paintings thematically diverge from Sarrita’s elemental inspired series. In an abstract way Sarrita references the iconography of the Tingari creation ancestors with her use of strong rectangles. These are then given body with dots and dashes, similar to Morse code. These symbols of communication are haunting in their familiarity, like an ancient language that was once known but now sits dormant at the back of one’s memory. The overall aesthetic is bold and assertive, and just like much iconography in Aboriginal cultures, the ancient now appears contemporary.
$20,000 AUD
Code: ASGTK17001
Artist: Tarisse King
Title: Earth Images
Medium: Acrylic on Linen
Size: 242x251cm
Year: 2017
$500 AUD
Code: ASGTK08003
Artist: Tarisse King
Title: Natural Flow
Medium: Acrylic on Linen
Size: 30x60cm
Year: 2008