Zoe Porter is a Brisbane based interdisciplinary artist whose practice is grounded in drawing, but also extends into painting, installation, performance, sculpture, site-specific works and video. Her work frequently depicts the animal-human hybrid in an attempt at crossing the boundaries between the animal and the human, real and imaginary states, chaos and order. Much of her work explores a personal mythology that presents the human form undergoing transformation, which suggests the possibilities for other ways of being or existing. Her performance-based works are often collaborative and merge art, theatre, sound and physical performance highlighting the artistic and creative processes involved in producing artworks.
A two-time finalist in the Marie Ellis Oam Drawing Prize (2017, 2014), Porter has also been named a finalist in the Melt Portrait Prize, Brisbane Powerhouse (2016), the GAS Graduate Awards, QCA, Brisbane (2014), and the Thiess Art Prize, Brisbane (2006). She has undertaken a number of international residencies including ARToba, Japan (2019), Burgundy, France (2006), Geidai University, Tokyo (2010) and Crane Arts, Philadelphia (2012), and exhibited in solo and group exhibitions in Australia and overseas such as Brisbane Art Design (2019); ‘Beyond Reason’, QUT Art Museum (2018); ‘Debra Porch & Friends’, Woolloongabba Art Gallery (2018); and ‘Edible Weeds’, Berlin (2017).
