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Yhonnie Scarce
Yhonnie Scarce is an Australian glass artist whose work is held in major Australian galleries. She is a descendant of the Kokatha and Nukunu people of South Australia, and her art is informed by the effects of colonisation on Indigenous Australia, in particular Aboriginal South Australians. She has been active as an artist since completing her first degree in 2003, and teaches at the Centre of Visual Art in the Victorian College of the Arts in Melbourne.
Yhonnie Scarce was born in Woomera, South Australia, and lived an itinerant early life, living in Adelaide, Hobart, and Alice Springs, before settling in Adelaide from around 1991. She is of the Kothatha people of the Lake Eyre region (north of Woomera) and Nukunu people of the southern Eyre Peninsula
After leaving school, Scarce worked first in administration at the University of Adelaide, then as a trainee at the Tandanya National Aboriginal Cultural Institute in the visual arts department. While doing office work at the Centre for Australian Indigenous Research and Studies at the University of Adelaide in 2001, she enrolled in a Bachelor of Visual Art at the University of South Australia, majoring in glass-blowing with a minor in painting. She graduated in 2003 as the first Aboriginal student to graduate from the University of Adelaide with a major in Glass, and was on the Dean's Merit Award List.
Scarce went on to an honours degree in 2004, during which time she researched the forced removal of Aboriginal people from their country.
She furthered her academic career by participating in a masterclass at North Lands Creative Glass Centre in Lybster, Scotland, in 2005, and received a Women in Research Fellowship from Monash University, undertaking a Masters of Fine Arts in 2008.
Scarce's art is informed by the effects of colonisation on Indigenous Australia. She is influenced by the qualities of glass as a medium and uses her work to address Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander issues including genocide, racism, environmental degradation and intergenerational trauma.
Much of Scarce's glass work uses the murnong (yam daisy) as a recurring motif. She has travelled through Germany, Poland, Ukraine, the former Yugoslavian states, Japan and the United States, looking at the design of monuments and memorials, in particular those related to nuclear trauma, genocide, massacres, rebellions and war.
Weak in Colour but Strong in Blood was exhibited at the 19th Biennale of Sydney at the Art Gallery of New South Wales in 2014. It featured glass yams alongside test tubes, arranged in a hospital-like setting.
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Yhonnie Scarce
Yhonnie Scarce is an Australian glass artist whose work is held in major Australian galleries. She is a descendant of the Kokatha and Nukunu people of South Australia, and her art is informed by the effects of colonisation on Indigenous Australia, in particular Aboriginal South Australians. She has been active as an artist since completing her first degree in 2003, and teaches at the Centre of Visual Art in the Victorian College of the Arts in Melbourne.
Yhonnie Scarce was born in Woomera, South Australia, and lived an itinerant early life, living in Adelaide, Hobart, and Alice Springs, before settling in Adelaide from around 1991. She is of the Kothatha people of the Lake Eyre region (north of Woomera) and Nukunu people of the southern Eyre Peninsula
After leaving school, Scarce worked first in administration at the University of Adelaide, then as a trainee at the Tandanya National Aboriginal Cultural Institute in the visual arts department. While doing office work at the Centre for Australian Indigenous Research and Studies at the University of Adelaide in 2001, she enrolled in a Bachelor of Visual Art at the University of South Australia, majoring in glass-blowing with a minor in painting. She graduated in 2003 as the first Aboriginal student to graduate from the University of Adelaide with a major in Glass, and was on the Dean's Merit Award List.
Scarce went on to an honours degree in 2004, during which time she researched the forced removal of Aboriginal people from their country.
She furthered her academic career by participating in a masterclass at North Lands Creative Glass Centre in Lybster, Scotland, in 2005, and received a Women in Research Fellowship from Monash University, undertaking a Masters of Fine Arts in 2008.
Scarce's art is informed by the effects of colonisation on Indigenous Australia. She is influenced by the qualities of glass as a medium and uses her work to address Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander issues including genocide, racism, environmental degradation and intergenerational trauma.
Much of Scarce's glass work uses the murnong (yam daisy) as a recurring motif. She has travelled through Germany, Poland, Ukraine, the former Yugoslavian states, Japan and the United States, looking at the design of monuments and memorials, in particular those related to nuclear trauma, genocide, massacres, rebellions and war.
Weak in Colour but Strong in Blood was exhibited at the 19th Biennale of Sydney at the Art Gallery of New South Wales in 2014. It featured glass yams alongside test tubes, arranged in a hospital-like setting.