Few people can lay claim to changing a city forever – it's food, art and culture – but Mirka Mora can. The Holocaust survivor fled war-torn France for Australia in 1951. Together with her husband, Georges, she brought a cosmopolitan sensibility and aesthetic missing from dour, provincial Melbourne. In a 60-year artistic career she painted on canvases big and small and collaborated with everyone from VicRail to fashion designers Gorman. Mirka's life reflected her art: bold, energetic and colourful. A new exhibition of Mirka's work tells both her life story and legacy through paintings, sound recordings and film. William Mora, her son and art dealer, joined us to discuss the exhibition and remember his late mother.