Yhonnie Scarce only spent a handful of early-childhood years in her birthplace of Woomera, South Australia; but her art has constantly returned to the history of that landscape as a site for nuclear testing and mining.
Hollowing Earth reacts to Uranium mining of the earth between Adelaide and Alice Springs, the home of Scarce’s ancestors. Uranium oxide is used as a colouring agent for glass, so the artist has created 50 transparent ‘Uranium glass’ forms, shaped like the Yunala (or ‘bush banana’) that is totemic to her people – but each slightly damaged.