Education
2002 Post Graduate Diploma in Fine Art (sculpture), Victorian College of the Arts, Melbourne, Australia.
2000 Bachelor of Visual Art (sculpture & textiles), University of Southern Queensland, Toowoomba, Australia
Solo & Duo Exhibitions
2026 Rites of Homing, Custom House Studios + Gallery, Westport, Ireland
2004 Things of the Dirt, West Space, Melbourne, Australia
2002 Where There’s Smoke, with Ian McIntyre, C7, Toowoomba, Australia
2001 Milk Thistle Wishes with Damien Kamholtz, Railway Gallery, Toowoomba, Australia
1997 You make my heart turn to jello, Metro Galleries, Brisbane, Australia
Group Exhibitions
2026 Soft Fascination curated by Marianne OKane Baol, The Linenhall, Castlebar, Mayo
- InHouse 26, Custom House Studios + Gallery, Westport, Mayo
2025 Winter Gathering, Custom House Studios + Gallery, Westport, Mayo
- So Nice Day with the Carrowbeg Artist Group, Courthouse Gallery & Studios, Ennistymon.
- Clifden Arts Festival Exhibition, Interface Inagh,
- InHouse‘25, Custom House Studios + Gallery, Westport, Mayo
- Notions: Home, Place and Speculations, The People’s Museum, Limerick
2024 Lionir, Custom House Studios + Gallery, Westport, Mayo
-Meant to Fade, curated by K.Gribkoff & P.Tohl, Automat Artspace, Staarbrüken, Germany
-The Considered Line, curated by Lenka Skyorová, Interface, Lough Inagh, Co Galway
-InHouse, Custom House Studios + Gallery, Westport, Ireland
-So Nice Day, with Carrowbeg Artist Group, Custom House Studios + Gallery, Westport
2023 Winter Exhibition, Custom House Studios & Gallery, Westport
- Mayo Artists Show, curated by Ian Wieczorek, Linenhall Arts Centre, Castlebar
- Summer Studio Group Exhibition, Custom House Studios + Gallery, Westport
- Meant To Fade, curated by Katerina Gribkoff & Phoebe Tohl, Laneway Gallery, Cork
2021 Mayo Artists Show, curated by Eamon Maxwell, The Linenhall Arts Centre, Castlebar
2019 Brittle/Fragile, curated by Vincent O’Donoghue, Westival Gallery, Westport, Co Mayo
- The Mayo Word, National Museum of Ireland, Turlough, Co Mayo
2018 Identity, curated by Vincent O’Donoghue, Westival Gallery, Westport Arts Festival
2013 Winter Show, Custom House Studios, Westport Quay
2012 Greenway Gallery, Westport Arts Festival, Ireland
2006 Botanical, curated by Alister Karl, Brunswick Arts, Melbourne, Australia
2005 Socialising Space, curated by Alister Karl, Brunswick Arts, Melbourne
-Found, Bolin Bolin Gallery, Bulleen, Melbourne
2004 White Hot, curated by Christian Thompson, Hush Hush Gallery, Next Wave Festival
- Landed, Domain House, Royal Botanical Gardens, Melbourne Environmental Arts Festival,
- A4, West Space, Melbourne, Australia
2002-04 Grapple (touring) Pinnacles Gallery, Thuringowa; Caloundra Regional Art Gallery; Global Arts Link, Ipswich; Grafton Regional Art Gallery; Gallery Hinchinbrook, Ingham; Gladstone Regional Art Gallery; Hands on Art, Brisbane.
2002 Graduate Exhibition, Victorian College of the Arts Gallery, Southbank, Melbourne
- Proud, Victorian College of the Arts Gallery, Melbourne, Victoria
- ANZ Fellowship Award, ANZ Gothic Bank, Melbourne, Victoria
2001 memorise THIS, curated by Franz Ehmann, SOApBOx Gallery, Brisbane, Queensland
2000 Zeitgeist, Graduate Show, Toowoomba Regional Art Gallery, Australia
- Construct/reconstruct, USQ Gallery, Toowoomba; Griffith University Gallery, Gold Coast; Nan Yang University, Singapore.
- Stitch Weld Weave, Art M@trix, Toowoomba, Australia.
1997 Monthly Open Exhibitions, Forks For Eyes, Toowoomba, Australia
-Student Exchange exhibition, Univerita Sebelas Maret, Indonesia
Awards
2026 Mayo County Council Arts Service, Artist Bursary Award
2025 Mayo County Council Arts Service, Artist Bursary Award
2024 The Arts Council of Ireland, Agility Award
2023 Mayo Arts Service Upstart Award with Custom House Studios and Carrowbeg Artists
2002 Shortlisted, ANZ Fellowship Award, ANZ Gothic Bank, Melbourne, Victoria
Interviews, Articles & Publications
2026 Ciara Moynihan, ‘Weaving her way home’, The Mayo News, 7th July
2024 Witness with Siobhán Garrigan, RTE Radio 1, 16th February
- Ciara Moynihan, “Bathe in beauty” Mayo News, 23 January
2023 Prescott C., ‘A Beckoning’ in “Meant to Fade”, Katerina Gribkoff (Ed) Plus Print Ltd, p37
2023 Elllie O’Byrne, “Art that’s meant to fade”, Tripe and Drisheen, Cork, 28 June 2023
2017 Christian Thompson, Christine Prescott: Tear Out Your Art, Academia and VICE.com.
2004 Megan Backhouse, “Around the Galleries”, The Age (Melbourne), 1 May.
2002 Mandy Wildeheart, “A Feast for all senses” Townsville Bulletin, 30 August, p26
2001 Sandy Pottinger, “A banquet of art with many courses”, The Chronicle, 10 April
Studio Residencies
2023-26 Custom House Studios and Gallery, Westport, Ireland
2013-14 Custom House Studios and Gallery, Westport, Ireland
Curatorial Positions
2019-current McGings Annual Open Exhibition, Westival, Westport
1998 COOKED Artist Run Space, Inaugural exhibition, Russell st, Toowoomba, Australia
1997 Monthly exhibitions, bigSMALL Gallery, University of Southern Queensland, Australia