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Code: ASGS-SK-20031

Artist: Sarrita King

Title: 'Waterhole' Coolamon

Medium: Sculpture, Metal, Patina

Size: 89x23x9cm

Year: 2020

* Imagery is on both sides of the Coolamon

* Imagery hand welded onto metal over etching taken directly from original artwork

With this sculpture Sarrita wanted to translate her ‘Waterhole” 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.

Sarrita King | Waterhole

Sarrita paints the naturally occurring waterholes she remembers travelling around Alice Springs and Katherine. The scarcity of drinking water in certain regions means specific knowledge of where these waterholes are located, as well as their preservation methods, is paramount to survival. Today, Aborigines speak of where waterholes once were as many of them have dried up due to drought or diminished maintenance. When Sarrita traveled to see the waterholes with her father she saw many of them dried up and this is what she paints. Represented by the concentric circles, the waterholes are fed by underground streams pushing through land and rock. Sarrita shows these streams by ribbons of wavy lines intricately entwined across the canvas as muddy and dried ochre colours, just as she experienced them.

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