Major new exhibition at ACCA

By Micaela Togher

A major new exhibition of work by Yhonnie Scarce will open at the Australian Centre for Contemporary (ACCA) Art this month.

Entitled Missile Park, the exhibition will include a series of new commissions as well as a comprehensive survey of Scarce’s work from the past 15 years.

Born in Woomera, South Australia, she is known for creating works of cultural and political significance. Often referencing the ongoing effects of colonisation on the Aboriginal community, her research has explored the impact of the relocation of Aboriginal people from their homelands and forcible removal of children from their families.

Belonging to the Kikatha and Nukunu peoples, Scarce is known as a master glass-blower which she puts to the service of spectral installations, drawing on the experience and strength of her ancestors and sharing their significant stories from the past.

Scarce’s work has been exhibited worldwide with recent projects being shown at the Pavilion of Contemporary Art in Milan, the Museum of London in Ontario, Canada and the National Gallery of Modern Art in New Dehli, India.

Yhonnie Scarce: Missile Park is being developed by ACCA and directors Max Delany and Liz Nowell in collaboration with guest curator Lisa Waup.

The exhibition will run from March 27 to June 14 at ACCA, and the Institute of Modern Art in Brisbane from July 17 to September 19.

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