2002 Post Graduate Diploma in Fine Art, Victorian College of the Arts, Melbourne. 2000 Bachelor of Visual Art, University of Southern Queensland, Toowoomba, Australia
Solo Exhibitions 2004 Things of the Dirt, Westspace, Melbourne, Australia 1997 You make my heart turn to jello, The Development Space: Robert Hughes Gallery, Metro Arts, Brisbane
Group Exhibitions 2024 InHouse, Custom House Studios + Gallery, Westport, Ireland - So Nice Day, with Carrowbeg Artist Group, Custom House Studios + Gallery 2023 Winter Exhibition, Custom House Studios + Gallery, Westport - Mayo Artists Show, curated by Ian Wieczorek, Linenhall Arts Centre, Castlebar, Ireland - 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, Co Mayo - The Mayo Word, National Museum of Ireland - Country Life, Turlough, Co Mayo 2018 Identity, curated by Vincent O’Donoghue, Westival Gallery, Westport Arts Festival 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, New Wave Festival Melbourne, Australia. - Landed, Melbourne Environmental Arts Festival, Royal Botanical Gardens, Melbourne - A4, Westspace, Melbourne, Australia 2002-04 Grapple (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, VCA Gallery, Victorian College of the Arts, Melbourne - ANZ Fellowship Award, ANZ Gothic Bank, Melbourne, Victoria - Proud, VCA Gallery, Victorian College of the Arts, Melbourne, Victoria 2001 Milk Thistle Wishes, with Damien Kamholtz, Railway Gallery, Toowoomba, Australia - memorise THIS, curated by Franz Ehmann, SOApBOx Gallery, Brisbane, Queensland 2000 Zeitgeist, Graduate Show, Toowoomba Regional Art Gallery, Australia - Construct/reconstruct (touring) curated by Anne Marie Reaney, USQ Gallery, Toowoomba; Griffith University Gallery, Gold Coast; Nan Yang University, Singapore. - Stitch Weld Weave with Sarah King, Megan Lyndon and Chikako Urato, Art M@trix, Toowoomba, Australia. 1997 Student Exchange exhibition, Univerita Sebelas Maret, Indonesia 1997-98 Monthly Open Exhibitions, Forks For Eyes, curated by Micheal Donnelly & Eon Phyre, Toowoomba, Australia
Curatorial Positions 2024 So Nice Day, with Caroline Masterson, Custom House Studios + Gallery, Westport, Ireland 2019-24 McGings Open Exhibition, with Breda Burns, Caroline Masterson & Graiine OReilly, Westival, Westport 1996. bigSMALL Gallery, University of Southern Queensland, Australia 1997 COOKED Artist Run Space, Inaugural exhibition, Russell st, Toowoomba, Australia
Interviews, Articles & Publications 2024 Witness with Siobhán Garrigan, RTE Radio 1, 16th February https://www.rte.ie/radio/radio1/ witness-with-siobhan-garrigan/2024/0216/1432812-witness-with-siobhan-garrigan-friday-16-february-2024// - Ciara Moynihan, “Bathe in beauty” Mayo News, 23 January 2023 Prescott C., ‘A Beckoning’ in “Meant to Fade”, Katerina Gribkoff (Ed) Plus Print Ltd. 2023 Elllie O’Byrne, “Art that’s meant to fade”, Tripe and Drisheen, Cork, 28 June 2023 https://tripeanddrisheen.substack.com/p/art-thats-meant-to-fade?utm_source=substack&utm_medium=email&utm_content=share 2017 Dr. Christian Thompson AO, “Christine Prescott, Tear Out Your Art”https://www.academia.edu/27774652/Christine_Prescott_Tear_Out_Your_Art 2016 https://www.vice.com/en/article/pgmy58/christian-thompson-christine-prescott 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
Awards 2024 The Arts Council of Ireland, Agility Award 2023 Mayo County Council Arts Service, Upstart Award for collaborative project with Carrowbeg Artist Group and Custom House Studios + Gallery
Studio Residencies 2023-24 Custom House Studios + Gallery, Westport, Ireland 2013 Custom House Studios + Gallery, Westport, Ireland
Certificates 2023 Integrative Forest Therapy Practitioner, Nádúr Integrative Forest Therapy 2022 Principles of Art Therapy, Crawford College of Art & Design (MTU) 2021 Forest Bathing Guide, Nádúr Integrative Forest Therapy, Co Wicklow