Mia Boe is a Naarm/Melbourne-based artist known for her haunting and evocative painting practice. Her work looks at the brutal and violent history of colonisation in Australia through a contemporary perspective. Informed by her Butchulla and Burmese ancestry, Mia records and rediscovers Indigenous histories denied, occluded or pacified in popular Australian narratives. Winner of the 2021 Brett Whiteley Travelling Art Scholarship, she has exhibited at the Melbourne Art Fair and the Museum of Brisbane, and is a Gertrude Contemporary Studio artist.
Mia’s work Black Tracker is a sequence of three portraits depicting her ancestor Jack Noble or Wonamutta, one of the Native Police troopers who pursued the famous bushranger Ned Kelly in country Victoria.
