Katherine Boland CV & Bio 2025
www.katherineboland.com.au
Katherine Boland is a multidisciplinary artist based in Merimbula, New South Wales. Working across painting, photography, and digital media, she explores the beauty and fragility of the natural world.
Katherine’s work reflects on humanity’s evolving relationship with nature and the ecological crises we face. Her recent explorations incorporate emerging technologies to convey environmental themes, aiming to deepen our connection with the Earth and inspire greater environmental responsibility.
In the wake of the 2019/20 Australian bushfires Katherine was selected 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 Program which supported artists from southeast Australia and the American West in creating works that reflect their bushfire experiences.
Her work has been featured in significant global forums, including the DigitalArt4Climate Art Award at the 2021 United Nations Climate Conference in Glasgow and the Art Speaks Out Exhibitions at the 2022, 2023 and 2024 United Nations Climate Conferences in Egypt, Dubai and Azerbaijan, respectively. In late 2023, Katherine’s work, Fire Flower No. 8, created with fire itself, achieved global recognition when it was presented by the Australian Prime Minister as a gift to President Joe Biden at the White House during an official visit to Washington.
Katherine has been the recipient of several prestigious Australian art prizes, including the 2023 National Capital Art Prize (Sustainability Category) the 2023 Burrinja Climate Change Biennale Art Award 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 Practice from the Melbourne Institute of Experiential and Creative Art Therapies (MIECAT).
Highlights
2025 Hawkesbury Art Prize, Commended, Purple Noon Gallery, Sydney, New South Wales, AUSTRALIA
2025 Burnt into Memory, Group Exhibition, Hawkesbury Regional Gallery, Windsor, New South Wales, AUSTRALIA
2025 Treading Lightly, Group Exhibition, Gallery 76, Concord West, Sydney, New South Wales, AUSTRALIA
2025 Forage II, Group Exhibition, Blue Mountains Cultural Centre, Katoomba, New South Wales, AUSTRALIA
2024 River of Art Prize, Finalist, Narooma, New South Wales, AUSTRALIA
2024 Collectors Exhibition, Group Exhibition, Manyung Gallery, Malvern, Victoria, AUSTRALIA
2024 Spring Fever Exhibition, Group Exhibition, Manyung Gallery, Mornington, Victoria, AUSTRALIA
2024 Artisans in the Gardens, Group Exhibition, Royal Botanic Garden, Sydney, New South Wales, AUSTRALIA
2024 International Photography Awards, Honourable Mention, Special/Other Category, Los Angeles, California, USA
2024 Hadley’s Art Prize, Finalist, Hadley’s Orient Hotel, Hobart, Tasmania, AUSTRALIA
2023 National Capital Art Prize, Winner, Sustainability Category, Canberra, Australian Capital Territory, AUSTRALIA
2023 Where There's Still Life, Solo Exhibition, Manyung Gallery, Malvern, Victoria, AUSTRALIA
2023 Collabor8Women, Finalist, Ellipse Gallery, Woolloomooloo, New South Wales, AUSTRALIA
2023 Kinship with Birds in Flight and Plight, Finalist, Online Group Exhibition, Women Eco Artists Dialog, California, USA
2023 Mission to Seafarers Maritime Art Prize, Finalist, Docklands, Victoria, AUSTRALIA
2023 Reimagine Art Prize, People's Choice Award, Wallarobba Arts & Cultural Centre, Hornsby, New South Wales, AUSTRALIA
2023 Central Desert Digital Art Prize, Finalist, Raft Artspace, Mparntwe, Alice Springs, Northern Territory, AUSTRALIA
2023 Forage I, Group Exhibition, Gallery Lane Cove, Sydney, New South Wales, AUSTRALIA
2023 WAMA Art Prize, Finalist, Ararat Gallery TAMA, Ararat, Victoria, AUSTRALIA
2023 Environmental Art & Design Award, Finalist, Manly Art Gallery, Sydney, New South Wales, AUSTRALIA
2023 Open Field Arts Festival, Group Exhibition, Berry, New South Wales, AUSTRALIA
2023 Australasia's Emerging Photographers Award, Highly Commended, ART category Capture Magazine, AUSTRALIA
2022 Renascent, Solo Exhibition, Bega Valley Regional Gallery, Eden Cultural Centre, New South Wales, AUSTRALIA
2022 Australasia's Emerging Photographers Award, Top 10 finalist, Art Category, Capture Magazine
2022 Photographer of the Year 2021, Highly Commended, Australian Photography Magazine, AUSTRALIA
2022 The Heat Is On, Winner, Burrinja Climate Change Biennale, Burrinja Cultural Centre, Upwey, Victoria, AUSTRALIA
2022 Art Speaks Out, Finalist, IKONO TV, COP27 United Nations Climate Conference, Sharm-el Sheik, EGYPT
2022 Meroogal Women's Art Prize, Finalist, Sydney Living Museums, Nowra, New South Wales, AUSTRALIA
2022 Tree, Urban Forest Project, Group Exhibition, Forty-five Downstairs Gallery, Melbourne, Victoria, AUSTRALIA
2022 Environmental Art & Design Award, Finalist, Manly Art Gallery & Museum, Sydney, New South Wales, AUSTRALIA
2022 Art for Climate Change, Online Group Exhibition,Planet Earth Channel, IKONO TV, Berlin, GERMANY
2022 ICONS Billboard Display, DigitalArt4Climate, Group Exhibition, Tokyo, JAPAN
2022 Mandorla Art Award, Finalist, Perth, Western Australia, AUSTRALIA
2022 Fire, Group Exhibition, Climarte Gallery, Richmond, Victoria, AUSTRALIA
2022 Planet Recovery Project Exhibition, Finalist, Labyrinth Gallery, UNITED KINGDOM
2022 Women See Change, Visual Petition, Parliament House, Canberra, Australian Capital Territory, AUSTRALIA
2022 The Next, Online Group Exhibition, Li Tang Gallery, New York, USA
2022 Platforme Planet Earth, Online Group Exhibition, Finalist, New York, USA
2021 DigitalArt4Climate Art Competition, Finalist, COP26 United Nations Climate Conference, Glasgow, UNITED KINGDOM
2021 Environmental Art and Design Prize, Finalist, Manly Art Gallery & Museum, Sydney, New South Wales, AUSTRALIA
2021 Waverley Art Prize, Finalist, Sydney, New South Wales, AUSTRALIA
2020 Cultural Diplomacy Grants Program, Output - Art After Fire Project, Australian Department of Foreign Affairs & Trade
