WEAK IN COLOUR BUT STRONG IN BLOOD

YHONNIE SCARCE

Exhibition Dates: 4 December 2015 - 13 February 2016

Aesthetically beautiful, politically motivated and personally driven, Yhonnie Scarce’s delicately crafted glass work explores the continuing effects of colonisation on Australia’s First People. With its laboratory setting, her  work Weak In Colour But Strong In Blood (2013–14), references the medico-scientific eugenic practices of the early 1900s, particularly those performed by the Australian anthropologist and ethnologist Norman Tindale, including on Scarce’s own family members.

Image: Yhonnie Scarce Weak in Colour but Strong in Blood 2013-14, (Installation View 19th Biennale of Sydney 2014)