Christine Prescott is a contemporary Australian Artist living in the West of Ireland. She is drawn to repetitious, meditative processes and uses organic materials such as wood, bone, wine and botanicals to create poetic sculptural assemblages and works on paper. Her rural upbringing has imbued her aesthetic with notions of time, healing, decay, and the spirit of place. The works reference our shared ecology, speaking of things both universal and deeply personal.

Over the last year her work was selected for the international drawing exhibition Here, the Considered Line at Interface Lough Inagh; Meant To Fade at Automat Artspace in Saarbrucken, Germany; and Notions: Home, Place and Speculations at The People’s Museum in Limerick. She received an Agility Award from the Arts Council of Ireland and an Arts Bursary from the Mayo County Council Arts Service. Her nature-based collaboration with the Carrowbeg Artist Group was funded by an Upstart award from the Mayo County Council Arts Service and resulted in the exhibition So Nice Day, which was shown at the Custom House in 2024 and will be travelling to the Courthouse Gallery in Clare in September 2025.

Christine has a long term residency at Custom House Studios + Gallery. Alongside her studio practice, she guides Forest Bathing experiences, deepening her engagement with place and the local communities.

For enquiries email: christineprescottstudio@gmail.com

Curriculum Vitae

2002 Post Graduate Diploma in Fine Art (Sculpture) , Victorian College of the Arts, Melbourne University, Australia

2000 Bachelor of Visual Art (Sculpture & Textiles), University of Southern Queensland, Australia

SOLO EXHIBITIONS

2004 Things of the Dirt, Westspace, Melbourne, Australia

2001 Milk Thistle Wishes, with Damien Kamholtz, Railway Gallery, Queensland, Australia

1997 You make my heart turn to jello, Metro Arts Gallery, Queensland, Australia

SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS

2025 Notions: Home, Place and Speculations, curated by Noelle Foden-Vencil & Róisín Byrne, The People’s Museum, Limerick, Ireland

2024 Lionir, Custom House Studios + Gallery, Mayo, Ireland

-Meant to Fade, curated by Katerina Gribbkoff & Phoebe Tohl, Automat Artspace, Staarbrüken, Germany

-The Considered Line, curated by Lenka Skyorová, Interface, Co Galway

-InHouse, Custom House Studios + Gallery, Westport, Ireland

-So Nice Day, with the 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

2022 Mayo Artists Show, curated by Eamon Maxwell, Linenhall Arts Centre, Castlebar

2019 Brittle/Fragile, curated by Vincent O’Donoghue, Westival Gallery, Westport

- The Mayo Word, National Museum of Ireland, Turlough Park, Ireland

2018 Identity, curated by Vincent O’Donoghue, Westival Gallery, Westport

2013 Winter Show, Custom House Studios + Gallery, Westport Quay

2012 Greenway Gallery, Westport Arts Festival, Ireland

2006 Botanical, curated by Alistair Karl, Brunswick Arts, Melbourne, Australia

2005 Socialising Space, Brunswick Arts, Melbourne

2004 White Hot, curated by Christian Thompson, Hush Hush Gallery, Next Wave Festival, Melbourne

- Landed, Melbourne Environmental Arts Festival, Royal Botanical Gardens, Melbourne

- A4, West Space, Melbourne, Australia

2002-04 Grapple: for senses other than just sight (touring), curated by Jacquelyn Murphy, 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

- ANZ Fellowship Award, ANZ Gothic Bank, Melbourne, Victoria

- Proud, Victorian College of the Arts Gallery, Melbourne, Victoria

- memorise THIS, curated by Franz Ehmann, SOApBOx Gallery, Brisbane, Queensland

2000 Zeitgeist, Graduate Show, Toowoomba Regional Art Gallery, Australia

- Construct/reconstruct, University of Southern Queensland Gallery; Griffith University Gallery, Queensland; Nan Yang University, Singapore.

- Stitch Weld Weave with Sarah King, Megan Lyndon and Chikako Urato, Art M@trix, Queensland

1997 Student Exchange exhibition, Univerita Sebelas Maret, Indonesia

1997 Monthly Open Exhibitions, Forks For Eyes, curated by Micheal Donnelly & Eon Phyre, Queensland

AWARDS

2025 Mayo County Council Arts Service, Artist Bursary Award

2024 The Arts Council of Ireland, Agility Award

2023 Mayo County Council Arts Service, Upstart Award, in collaboration with the Carrowbeg Artist Group and Custom House Studios + Gallery

INVITATIONS

2024 Guest Artist, “Documenting Time”, NCAD (National College of Art & Design) Dublin

-Guest Artist, Young Model Program, Model Sligo

2023-current Guest Artist, Westport Educate Together School, Mayo

INTERVIEWS, ARTICLES & PUBLICATIONS

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.edu & Vice.com  

2004 Megan Backhouse, Around the Galleries, The Age, 1 May

2002 Mandy Wildeheart, A Feast for all senses, Townsville Bulletin, 30 August

2001 Sandy Pottinger, A banquet of art with many courses, The Chronicle, 10 April