Carl Olaf Plate (19 December 1909[1] – 15 May 1977) was a prominent Australian modernist painter and collage artist.

[3][4] Through his friend Arthur Wheen, he began to mix with leading English artists and writers such as Roland Penrose, Herbert Read and T S Eliot.

[7][8][9] In the 1940s and '50s, Plate was a prominent board member and exhibitor of the NSW Branch of the Contemporary Art Society (Australia).

[13] In 1967 he won the Aubusson tapestry-Australian Wool Board Prize (dual), travelling to France to complete the tapestry design.

In the same year the Art Gallery of New South Wales presented a retrospective of his work Project 22, Carl Plate 1909–1977.