Australian artist, Katherine Boland works across the disciplines of painting, photography and digital media. Since the 2019/20 Australian bushfires, which devastated her region on the south east coast of the country, Katherine has been compelled to make art, often with fire itself, to raise awareness about climate change and the ecological perils facing the planet.

In 2020, Katherine was invited to participate in OUTPUT- Art After Fire – an international pilot project, funded by the Australian Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade through their Cultural Diplomacy Grants Program, which supported artists in southeast Australia and the American west to create artwork about their bushfire experiences. Katherine’s climate change-related work has featured in several international art exhibitions, including the DigitalArt4Climate Art Award at the 2021 United Nations Climate Conference in Glasgow and the Art Speaks Out Exhibition at the 2022 United Nations Climate Conference in Egypt.

Katherine has been the recipient of numerous art prizes and grants, including the Burrinja Climate Change Biennale Art Award in 2023 and the Heysen Art Prize for Interpretation of Place in 2009. Her work is held in corporate, public and private collections in Australia, Europe, Asia and the USA and her memoir, Hippy Days, Arabian Nights, was published by Australian publisher, Wild Dingo Press in 2017. Katherine holds a Graduate Diploma in Therapeutic Arts from the Melbourne Institute of Experiential and Creative Art Therapies (MIECAT).