Mia Boe
Artwork title: That Which Persists
Medium: oil and acrylic on linen
Size: 152 × 102 cm
Year: 2026
$20,200
About the Artwork
The Australian landscape is a space marked by the spirits of tragedy and grief, love and presence. This painting is about all that which has left its mark on the landscape, what can be seen and what can’t be seen. The flowers dotted around the landscape are flannel flowers, which bloom in landscapes that have been affected by fires. The white spirit figures and arms flying around the trees are symbols of the everlasting connection between First Nations peoples and the landscape.
About the Artist
Mia Khin Boe is an artist whose cultural inheritances and disinheritances are the focus of her work. Of Butchulla and Burmese descent, her art offers an oblique response to the historical and ongoing colonial violence inflicted upon the lands and peoples of these cultures. Born on Yuggera/Turrbal Country, Brisbane, and now living on the lands of the Kulin Nation in Melbourne, Boe is concerned with uncovering ignored, forgotten, and denied realities, often moving between social realism and speculative fiction to imagine futures lost.
Photo: Phoebe Kelly