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Yhonnie Scarce's exhibition 'The Light of Day' is a real highlight of the Perth Festival..
Yhonnie Scarce reflects on the themes running through her solo exhibition at the Australian Centre for Contemporary Art, Missile Park.
Yhonnie Scarce
Australian Kokatha and Nukunu artist
Yhonnie Scarce[a] 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.
Early life and education
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.[2][1][3] She is of the Kothatha people of the Lake Eyre region (north of Woomera) and Nukunu people of the southern Eyre Peninsula[1]
After leaving school, Scarce worked first in administration at the University of