Yhonnie Scarce is an Indigenous Australian interdisciplinary artist, known for her sculptural works, often architectural in scale. Born in Woomera in South Australia, she belongs to the Kokatha and Nukunu peoples. Central to Scarce’s practice is her work as a highly skilled glass blower, a medium she says she ‘thinks with’ and deploys to create large scale installations that negotiate personal and cultural histories. Her artistic repertoire also includes an engagement with found objects, photographs and material drawn from archives, used to explore the legacies of Australian colonisation and the ongoing impacts of that colonial project on her family and communities. In recent years, she has undertaken extensive research related to nuclear history, particularly nuclear testing conducted by the British in Australia in the 1950s and 1960s, with the support of the Australian government. Watch this Artist in Focus to learn more about her work at Sharjah Biennial 16 - Scarce presents two large-scale ‘cloud works’: Orford Ness (2022) and a new commission by Sharjah Art Foundation Operation Buffalo (2024).

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