A life of shifting borders Michael Kmit began his years in Stryi, Lviv, within the borders of Ukraine. His early training took him to the Academy of Fine Arts in Kraków, but the movements of war eventually pulled him away from his homeland. He found himself a displaced person in Innsbruck, Austria, where he met Dorothea. After moving through Bregenz and studying under Fernand Léger in Paris and Carlo Carrà in Italy, he arrived in Australia in 1949 as part of an immigration scheme. The early years in Australia were marked by manual labor. During the day, he worked at a cement factory in Villaw…