[1] She furthered her academic career by participating in a masterclass at North Lands Creative Glass Centre in Lybster, Scotland, in 2005, and received a Women in Research Fellowship from Monash University, undertaking a Masters of Fine Arts in 2008.
[2] She is influenced by the qualities of glass as a medium and uses her work to address Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander issues including genocide, racism, environmental degradation and intergenerational trauma.
Set in the Grollo Equiset Garden at the NGV, this nine-metre high by ten-metre wide cylinder is clad in a dark-stained Tasmanian hardwood, and lined with hundreds of glass yams.
Scottish physician William Ramsay Smith, who practised medicine at the Royal Adelaide Hospital in the early 1900s and used to sell body parts to international buyers, obtained some of his material from the morgue.
[11] Before the COVID-19 pandemic, Scarce had been spending some time at the University of Birmingham researching Otto Frisch and Rudolf Peierls, the scientists who worked on developing nuclear bomb technology.
The exhibition features a range of work by international and Australian artists, Indigenous and non-Indigenous, focusing on the implications of British nuclear tests at Maralinga, "as an example of how terra nullius has seeped into this country’s psyche", but with works extending to events outside of Australia, such as Pacific test sites, the atomic bombing of Hiroshima and Ustaše concentration camps in Yugoslavia.