Katherine Boland is a multidisciplinary artist living and working on the southeast coast of Australia. Her expansive practice encompasses digital media, photography, experimental processes, and non-traditional materials. Through her work, she reflects on the delicate balance between nature’s beauty and its escalating fragility amid environmental disruption.

Since the catastrophic Black Summer bushfires that devastated her region, Boland’s work has become increasingly centred on climate change and environmental themes. Her recent explorations use emerging technologies to reimagine landscapes and ecosystems in ways that cultivate emotional resonance, ecological awareness, and a deeper sense of care and responsibility.

In 2020, Boland was selected for OUTPUT: Art After Fire, an international pilot project supported by the Australian Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade. The initiative brought together artists from southeastern Australia and the American West to creatively respond to bushfire trauma and environmental recovery.

Her work has been featured in major global forums, including the DigitalArt4Climate Art Award at the 2021 United Nations Climate Conference (COP26) in Glasgow, and in Art Speaks Out, a curated video art exhibition series shown at the UN Climate Conferences in Egypt (2022), Dubai (2023), and Azerbaijan (2024). In 2023, her work Fire Flower No. 8—created using fire itself—was presented by Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese as an official gift to U.S. President Joe Biden at the White House.

Boland has been the recipient of several prestigious Australian art awards, including the 2023 National Capital Art Prize (Sustainability category), the 2023 Burrinja Climate Change Biennale Art Award, and the Heysen Prize for Interpretation of Place in 2009. Her work is held in public, private, and corporate collections across Australia, Europe, Asia, and the United States.

In addition to her visual arts practice, Boland is the author of the memoir Hippy Days, Arabian Nights (Wild Dingo Press, 2017), and holds a Graduate Diploma in Therapeutic Arts Practice from the Melbourne Institute of Experiential and Creative Art Therapies (MIECAT).