ARC ONE Gallery is delighted to present the 2025 VCA Artist Opportunity Award to Georgia Boseley and Jya-Ruby Nation.
This award is granted from the VCA Master of Contemporary Art and Bachelor of Fine Art courses to offer Boseley and Nation the chance to exhibit at ARC ONE Gallery in 2026.
This is the fourth year that ARC ONE has partnered with VCA to present this award. We are proud to be supporting these outstanding graduates.
Jya-Ruby Nation is a multidisciplinary artist. Through her cyclical, non-linear and self-referential processes of printmaking and animation, Nation examines and attempts to unsettle extractive colonial notions of place, time, memory, and connection. Within artworks that emerge without finality, loop continually, and are formed through a process of repetition, Nation highlights spaces of transition, fluidity, and ambiguity, where relationships to land and healing can be found. Inspired by her upbringing in rural eastern Victorian, Nation evokes rhythms, sequences, pacing and layers that negotiate a colonised identity and belong to an intertidal place.
Georgia Boseley is an award-winning Central and Eastern Arrernte artist and researcher living in Naarm. Her work documents the complexity and resistance of living as a First Nations person today. Boseley creates contemporary sculptural works using traditional weaving practices, alongside large-scale paintings and ceramic sculptures. Her practice often moves across disciplines and materials, embracing mixed media as a third place, a space of experimentation. Her works are held in private collections across the country and in the permanent collection of the National Gallery of Victoria.
