Yhonnie Scarce in her country; Photo Janelle Low, image source
It’s no coincidence that Yhonnie Scarce chose glass as her medium. Part of her ancestral country, near Maralinga, where British nuclear tests were held in the late 1950s and 1960s, literally turned to glass under the heat of atomic bombs.
The first Aboriginal student to graduate from the University of South Australia with a major in glass, Scarce uses her work as a glass blower explore her Kokatha and Nukunu ancestry and the recent history of Aboriginal Australia.
