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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 , 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 ^[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 Adelaide,