Rogue Planet screenprint studio, art gallery+school presents:

Nicholas Mau

Three decades of screenprinting

17 December 2025–10 February 2026

This retrospective exhibition celebrates three decades of bold, politically charged screenprinting by Nicholas Mau, bringing together a selection of limited edition posters that trace his career from the radical poster collectives of 1980s Melbourne to today.

Born in Adelaide in 1967, Mau graduated from Swinburne University's graphic design program in 1990 and became part of Melbourne's alternative screenprinted poster movement. His practice developed in the community-based collectives of Another Planet Posters, Redletter Community Press and RedPlanet; spaces where art and activism came together to amplify marginalised voices from Melbourne's inner north.

This exhibition features both popular best sellers and out-of-print works, showing Mau's ongoing commitment to grassroots, collectivist printmaking. His posters have never been just decorative; they are calls to action and records of social movements that shaped contemporary Australia.

Mau's work extends beyond the Melbourne streets where it first appeared. His prints are now held in the permanent collections of the National Gallery of Australia, National Gallery of Victoria, State Library of Victoria, Art Gallery of Western Australia, Art Gallery of Ballarat, Estonia's National Library and France's Chaumont Poster Museum. In 2019, the State Library of Victoria acquired his complete body of work from 2007–2016, in recognition of his printmaking practice.