At the 2026 Melbourne Fringe Festival, Arrernte artist Georgia Bosley presents Weaving the Everywhen, a sculptural landscape of scarred ceramics and woven grasses commissioned for the Deadly Fringe at the Koorie Heritage Trust.
Trained at the Victorian College of the Arts after a career in politics, Boseley works with self-harvested materials.
Her signature "scar pots" are ceramic vessels woven back together, evoking the sustainable practice of taking a coolamon from a tree and letting it heal, in stark contrast to industrial logging.
Large vessels rising into a woven canopy protest logging in lutruwita/Tasmania. Bosleey frames her practice through black futurism: First Nations reciprocity with Country—asking what a plant needs before harvesting—has never been a thing of the past, but lives in the present and must shape the future.
She hopes audiences leave recognising that Country surrounds them, even in urban Naarm/Melbourne.
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