Mia Boe is a painter from Meanjin (Brisbane). Her mother is of the Badtjala people from K’gari (Fraser Island) and her father is Burmese. Her work looks at the brutal and violent history of colonisation in Australia through a contemporary perspective.

Boe's art practice records and recovers Indigenous histories which Australia seeks to deny. This practice of recovery is urgent in contemporary Australia: the patient work of tracing historical trauma and violence can open new perspectives on the reasons for Aboriginal Australians' present suffering.