Mia Boe is a painter based in Melbourne, Australia, from Brisbane with Butchulla and Burmese ancestry. The inheritance and disinheritance of both cultures are the focus of her practice. Boe’s paintings respond, sometimes implicitly, to historical and contemporary acts of violence perpetrated on the people and lands of Burma and Australia. Other themes in her practice include the impossibility of homecoming when one's ties to home are severed by colonization, and systems of incarceration through the First Nations’ experience.