Rogue Planet screenprint studio, art gallery+school presents:

Carol Porter

Selected screenprintedand other works from across three decades

14 February–18 March 2026

Porter is a contemporary screenprint artist who has worked both internationally and from Melbourne since the 1970s. Her use of humour in her social commentary on various Australian issues is well known, particularly the prints she produced at RedLetter and RedPlanet Art: an alternative poster press collective inspired by an anti-elitist mission to reconnect art with communities.

Carol studied painting at RMIT for three years in the late sixties but discovered a passion for theatre and spent the next ten years firstly, at La Mama as founding member of Tribe, then at the Pram Factory with the Australian Performing Group. She worked mainly as a performer but also designed posters and sets. After receiving an Australia Council Travel Grant in 1979, she moved to New York where she performed in various theatre and video productions. Subsequently, she lived and worked in the South Bronx and later the Lower East Side as a housing activist and renovator; community artist and poster designer/screen printer, producing political posters and street art.

She worked for a year in Spain as a designer and screen printer before returning to Melbourne in 1989. She joined RedLetter Press as a graphic designer/screen-printer. RedLetter press became RedPlanet Art and Design Studio based in Fitzroy, where she worked as a graphic designer, screenprinter, artist in residence workshop supervisor, curator and tutor from 1990 to 2000.

She was involved in the first Melbourne Laneways public art projects in 2002 with Red Square Media, co-founded Rogue Planet Serigraphic Studio in Daylesford, producing and exhibiting limited edition screen prints. 

In 2014, Carol with several other local artists, began lobbying VicTrack for the use of the Newstead Goods Shed as an art making and teaching facility under their Community Use of Vacant Rail Buildings program. This process took about nine years and finally in 2022 RedShed Arts Workshop has been offering classes/workshops in various art disciplines including painting, drawing, etching and screen-printing.

Carol has participated in four large group exhibitions held during this time as well as being part of the Castlemaine/Newstead Open Studios programs.

More recently, she has been producing digital prints using photographic and graphic images. Some of these images were used to create contact prints onto canvas: an imperfect process that can result in interesting outcomes.