Australian artist ‘a tad hysterical’ after Albanese gifts her bushfire painting to Biden

Katherine Boland, who created Fire Flower No 8 after the Tathra bushfire, says she hopes the PM used her work as an opportunity to discuss the climate crisis

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An Australian artist whose work was gifted to the US president Joe Biden by prime minister Anthony Albanese during a state visit says she is “a tad hysterical” after being surprised by seeing her own painting on the news.

Katherine Boland’s painting, Fire Flower No 8, was created as part of a 2018 series after a bushfire destroyed 70 homes in Tathra, New South Wales.