Born in Woomera, Yhonnie Scarce’s glass works are informed by research into her Kokatha/Nukunu family’s experiences. Her work for Melbourne Now memorialises a mid-nineteenth century massacre that occurred at Elliston in coastal South Australia. A chilling Perspex coffin contains hundred black-coloured, blown glass yams, which metaphorically represent the Aboriginal people subjected to disease, displacement, massacre, deprivation, drugs, alcohol, eugenics and passive genocide as a result of the colonial condition.
Supported by Kerry Gardner & Andrew Myer and the Myer Foundation
