From Maralinga bombs to bailer shells: the artistic alchemy of Judy Watson and Yhonnie Scarce

Indigenous artists Watson and Scarce reveal layers of historical, cultural and personal gravitas behind immersive exhibitions

“The shadows that appeared on the wall were like bodies hanging from nooses,” says artist Yhonnie Scarce.

She is talking about a moment at the Art Gallery of New South Wales in 2017, during the installation of her piece Death Zephyr; a nuclear cloud created from thousands of hand-blown glass yams, roughly the shape of inverted teardrops, suspended from the ceiling.

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