Debra Porch's visual work for over 20 years focused on how the ‘everyday’ can be transformed into the ‘extraordinary’ through objects and devices that elicit or conjure up images of one’s past that otherwise may have been hidden (or be invisible) from sight.

Debra Porch exhibited in numerous exhibitions. Many of these exhibitions were associated with artist residencies and cross-cultural dialogues that began with a three-month residency at Chiang Mai University in 1993. Residencies followed in Hanoi, 1996 (via Asialink), returns to Vietnam and Thailand, Cité Internationalé des Arts, Paris (2000, 2013), and in 2010 and 2012, following her family heritage, Porch undertook a residency in Yerevan, Armenia.

For Porch, all of these cultural experiences and connections informed her art and resulted in ongoing projects and reciprocal events. She often worked with installation, incorporating a range of materials, including constructed and knitted textiles, hair, found/changed objects, electroplating, and video.