Code: ASGS-TKSK-20001
Artist: Tarisse King & Sarrita King
Title: My Country's Story III
Medium: Sculpture, Metal, Patina, Black & Silver
Size: 190x120x50cm
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.
Code: ASGO-TK-20020
Artist: Tarisse King
Title: Turtle
Medium: Sculpture, Metal, B&W, Stone Base
Size: 120x120x20cm
Year: 2020
With this sculpture Tarisse wanted to translate her ‘Campsites' 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 stone was selected to strengthen the connection of the story with land. The rust finish reminds us of the age of the markings and long history of these stories.
Code: ASGO-TK-20019
Artist: Tarisse King
Title: Turtle
Medium: Sculpture, Metal, B&W, Stone Base
Size: 120x120x20cm
Year: 2020
With this sculpture Tarisse wanted to translate her ‘Campsites' 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 stone was selected to strengthen the connection of the story with land. The rust finish reminds us of the age of the markings and long history of these stories.
Code: ASGO-TK-20018
Artist: Tarisse King
Title: Turtle
Medium: Sculpture, Metal, B&W, Stone Base
Size: 120x120x20cm
Year: 2020
With this sculpture Tarisse wanted to translate her ‘Campsites' 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 stone was selected to strengthen the connection of the story with land. The rust finish reminds us of the age of the markings and long history of these stories.
Code: ASGO-TK-20017
Artist: Tarisse King
Title: Turtle
Medium: Sculpture, Metal, B&W, Stone Base
Size: 200x200x30cm
Year: 2020
With this sculpture Tarisse wanted to translate her ‘Campsites' 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 stone was selected to strengthen the connection of the story with land. The rust finish reminds us of the age of the markings and long history of these stories.
Code: ASGO-TK-20016
Artist: Tarisse King
Title: Campsites
Medium: Sculpture, Metal, B&W, Stone Base
Size: 288x58x30cm
Year: 2020
With this sculpture Tarisse wanted to translate her ‘Campsites' 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 stone was selected to strengthen the connection of the story with land. The rust finish reminds us of the age of the markings and long history of these stories.
Code: ASGO-TK-20014
Artist: Tarisse King
Title: Campsites
Medium: Sculpture, Metal, B&W, Stone Base
Size: 220x120x30cm
Year: 2020
With this sculpture Tarisse wanted to translate her ‘Campsites' 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 stone was selected to strengthen the connection of the story with land. The rust finish reminds us of the age of the markings and long history of these stories.
Code: ASGO-TK-20012
Artist: Tarisse King
Title: My Country II
Medium: Sculpture, Metal, Black & Blue, Stone Base
Size: 270x130x30cm
Year: 2020
With this sculpture Tarisse wanted to translate her ‘My Country' 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 stone was selected to strengthen the connection of the story with land. The rust finish reminds us of the age of the markings and long history of these stories.
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.
Code: ASGO-TK-20011
Artist: Tarisse King
Title: My Country II
Medium: Sculpture, Metal, Rust, Stone Base
Size: 270x130x30cm
Year: 2020
With this sculpture Tarisse wanted to translate her ‘My Country' 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 stone was selected to strengthen the connection of the story with land. The rust finish reminds us of the age of the markings and long history of these stories.
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.
Code: ASGO-TK-20010
Artist: Tarisse King
Title: My Country II
Medium: Sculpture, Metal, Rust, Stone Base
Size: 270x130x30cm
Year: 2020
With this sculpture Tarisse wanted to translate her ‘My Country' 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 stone was selected to strengthen the connection of the story with land. The rust finish reminds us of the age of the markings and long history of these stories.
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.
Code: ASGTK19102
Artist: Tarisse King
Title: Bush
Medium: Acrylic on Linen
Size: 22x150cm
Year: 2019
Code: ASGSTK20029
Artist: Tarisse King
Title: My Country II
Medium: Metal, Enamel
Size: 39x20x8cm
Year: 2020
With this sculpture Tarisse wanted to translate her ‘My Country’ 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.
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.
Code: ASGSTK20028
Artist: Tarisse King
Title: My Country II
Medium: Metal, Enamel
Size: 39x20x8cm
Year: 2020
With this sculpture Tarisse wanted to translate her ‘My Country’ 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.
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.
Code: ASGSTK20027
Artist: Tarisse King
Title: My Country II
Medium: Metal, Enamel
Size: 39x20x8cm
Year: 2020
With this sculpture Tarisse wanted to translate her ‘My Country’ 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.
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.
Code: ASGSTK20026
Artist: Tarisse King
Title: My Country II
Medium: Metal, Enamel
Size: 39x20x8cm
Year: 2020
With this sculpture Tarisse wanted to translate her ‘My Country’ 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.
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.
Code: ASGSTK20025
Artist: Tarisse King
Title: My Country II
Medium: Metal, Enamel
Size: 39x20x8cm
Year: 2020
With this sculpture Tarisse wanted to translate her ‘My Country’ 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.
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.
Code: ASGSTK20024
Artist: Tarisse King
Title: My Country II
Medium: Metal, Enamel
Size: 39x20x8cm
Year: 2020
With this sculpture Tarisse wanted to translate her ‘My Country’ 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.
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.
Code: ASGSTK20023
Artist: Tarisse King
Title: My Country II
Medium: Metal, Enamel
Size: 39x20x8cm
Year: 2020
With this sculpture Tarisse wanted to translate her ‘My Country’ 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.
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.
Code: ASGSTK21015
Artist: Tarisse King
Title: Turtles II
Medium: Sculpture, Metal, Enamel
Size: 43x30x8cm
Year: 2020
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.
Code: ASGSTK21014
Artist: Tarisse King
Title: Turtles II
Medium: Sculpture, Metal, Enamel
Size: 43x30x8cm
Year: 2020
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.
Code: ASGSTK21013
Artist: Tarisse King
Title: Turtles II
Medium: Sculpture, Metal, Enamel
Size: 43x30x8cm
Year: 2020
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.
Code: ASGSTK21012
Artist: Tarisse King
Title: Turtles II
Medium: Sculpture, Metal, Enamel
Size: 43x30x8cm
Year: 2020
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.
Code: ASGS-TK-21011
Artist: Tarisse King
Title: Turtles II
Medium: Sculpture, Metal, Enamel
Size: 43x30x8cm
Year: 2020
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.
Code: ASGS-TK-21010
Artist: Tarisse King
Title: Turtles II
Medium: Sculpture, Metal, Enamel
Size: 43x30x8cm
Year: 2020
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.
Code: ASGS-TK-21009
Artist: Tarisse King
Title: Turtles II
Medium: Sculpture, Metal, Enamel
Size: 43x30x8cm
Year: 2020
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.
Code: ASGS-TK-21002
Artist: Tarisse King
Title: Campsites II
Medium: Sculpture, Metal, Red
Size: 52x33x8cm
Year: 2021
With this sculpture Tarisse wanted to translate her ‘Campsites’ 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 is a reflection of the age of the markings and long history of these stories.
Campsites
Australian Indigenous culture is well known for its nomatic lifestyle. Tarisse often reflects on the fact that her ancestors would constantly move from one campsite to another to find a better food & water source and for better shelter to suit the seasonal conditions.
Code: ASGTK21011
Artist: Tarisse King
Title: Earth Images
Medium: Acrylic on Linen
Size: 60x31cm
Year: 2020
Code: ASGTK2009
Artist: Tarisse King
Title: Earth Images
Medium: Acrylic on Linen
Size: 30x31cm
Year: 2020
Code: ASGTK21007
Artist: Tarisse King
Title: Fire
Medium: Acrylic on Linen
Size: 30x120cm
Year: 2021
Code: ASGJ-TK-20007
Artist: Tarisse King
Title: My Country
Medium: Leather
Size: 10x6.5
Year: 2020
Story:
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 artwork has a graphic look and a contemporary feel, indicative of Tarisse’s ability to make the ancient appear new.