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Liz Hobday

Artist's glass clouds bring dark truths into the light

Yhonnie Scarce draws inspiration from annual visits to her South Australian birthplace of Woomera. (HANDOUT/ART GALLERY OF WA)

Artist Yhonnie Scarce is known internationally for her installations of cascading glass clouds, made from thousands of individually hand-blown pieces.

On first encounter they are beautiful, like oversized chandeliers, but they are also a disquieting response to nuclear testing in Australia and the impacts of colonisation.

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