Mia Boe
Maniac Scholar, 2024
Mia Boe is a Brisbane-based artist with Butchulla and Burmese heritage. The focus of her practice is the inheritance and disinheritance of both cultures. Maniac Scholar is part of a body of work that responds to writing of seminal Yugambeh poet, activist and artist Lionel Fogarty. The title of this work is pulled from Fogarty’s 2014 poem ‘Connoisseur’, where he refers to the ‘exactitude illiterate maniac scholars’ in a critique of institutional power and disregard of indigenous knowledge.
- Artist / Maker
- Mia Boe (1997)
- Creation Date
- 2024
- Collection
- University Art Collection
- Subjects
- Art and Design - Paintings
- Materials used
- oil on linen
- Dimensions
(H x W x D) - 152.5 x 81 cm
- Credit line
- The University of Melbourne Art Collection. Purchased through the Margaret Cooper Bequest Fund, 2024
- Accession number
- 2024.010.001 Request Access