Tarrise King was born on the 4^th of September 1986.  She grew up in Darwin, and moved to Adelaide at the age of 16.  The stories she tells are of the top Northern region of Australia. Tarisse Paints with a similar technique to her father William King Jungala, but paints her own unique stories.

Tarisse is the daughter of renowned artist William Jungala; he is from the Gurrindji tribe near Katherine in the Northern Territory. He spent the last 23 years of his life in Adelaide on December 2^nd 2007 William King Passed away leaving his studio to his daughters Tarrise and Sarrita, living with her father for 5 years introduced and exposed  her to the art world. Overtime her involvement in her father’s art grew, until she eventually begun experimenting with her own designs and techniques.

 The riverbed in ‘Earth Images’ is painted from and aerial perspective and shows the winding of the river that snakes its way through the land.  This winding of the river forms the origin of many Aboriginal stories.  In the Australian bush the riverbed is often a rich source of food and water and traditionally Aboriginal people relied heavily on the presence of the river as they travelled across the land.