Zoe Porter is a Megandjin/Meanjin based cross-disciplinary artist working across the areas of drawing, installation, performance, sculpture, site-specific works and video. Her work is largely process-based and playful, frequently depicting animal-human and plant-human hybrid forms reflecting both real and imaginary states, chaos and order. Much of her work presents the human form in a state of continual of flux or undergoing transformation, suggestive of the possibilities for other ways of being or existing.
Zoe has continued to expand her interest in our complex human relationships with the non-human and natural world and has produced a series of collaborative and immersive performance events with other artists, performers and musicians to create strange and otherworldly installations. She has most recently produced a body of work based on research into Japanese Ama divers (female free divers) and their relationship to the sea after undertaking a residency to Toba, Japan (2019). Her performance-based work merges art, theatre, sound and dance to highlight the creative processes involved in drawing, as well as merging different disciplinary areas together to promote collaboration and audience participation.
Zoe has produced large scale wall works and murals including QUT Art Museum (2019), Onespace Gallery (2019), Brisbane Art Design (BAD) Festival (2019), Pilgrim Yoga Studio/Fish Lane (2021) and Brisbane Street Art Festival (2021). She has also created performances for numerous galleries and festivals including Fish Lane Precinct (2023), Benalla Art Gallery, Vic (2021), Prinzessinen Garten, Berlin (2018) and the Brisbane Street Art Festival (2018). She has undertaken a number of international residencies including Burgundy, France (2006), Geidai University, Tokyo (2010) and Crane Arts, Philadelphia (US) (2012) and ARToba Artspace (Toba, Japan) (2019). Her work has been selected as a finalist in several art prizes including, he Libris Prize (2025), Elaine Bermingham National Watercolour Prize (2020 & 2023) and the Brisbane Portrait Prize (2025), was awarded the Performing Arts & Music Award (Brisbane Portrait Prize) in 2023 and a recent grant recipient for funding with Australia Council for the Arts.
