Christine Druitt-Preston is a mixed media artist based in Sydney, Australia. Her practice uses   printmaking, stitching and installation to engage her audience in conversations about the nature of art.  Through layered imagery and tactile surfaces, Druitt Preston examines how we inhabit our world—how the spaces we build, nurture, and leave behind come to embody memory and emotion. I’m drawn to the quiet poetry of domestic interiors and gardens, the way these environments carry memory, shape identity, and bear the imprint of those who once tended to them.

Druitt-Preston studied at Alexander Mackie CAE and the National Art School 1968-71, and  Alfred University, Alfred, NY 1982-83. She worked as an art educator NSW TAFE 1974-1988 and the NSW Department of Secondary School Education 1998-2017.

Druitt-Prestons’ most recent solo exhibitions were in 2025, 2023 at Artsite Contemporary and 2022 at Hazelhurst Art Centre, with artworks also shown in 2025 KAAF Art Prize; STILL National Still Life Award; 2024 KAAF Art Prize; 2023 Blacktown Art Prize; Sunshine Coast Art Award; Naked & Nude Art Prize, Manning Regional Gallery and Gosford Art Prize; 2022 Tweed Regional Gallery; Artsite Contemporary; KAAF Art Prize (Highly Commended); Hunters Hill Art Prize and Ravenswood Women’s Art Prize; 2021 Hazelhurst Art on Paper Award; Burnie Print Prize; Inkmasters Print Award; KAAF Art Prize and Artsite Contemporary.

Druitt-Preston’s work is held in the Friends of Hazelhurst Collection, Coffs Harbour Regional Gallery, Brooklyn Art Library, Brooklyn, NY, Tweed Regional Gallery and Margaret Olley Centre Collection, Bathurst Regional Gallery, Private collections in Australia and USA.

Christine has been awarded AIRs in Haefligers Cottage, Hill End, courtesy of Bathurst Regional Gallery; Tweed Regional Art Gallery, Nancy Fairfax Studio and Hazelhurst cottage, Hazelhurst Art Centre.

Christine Druitt-Preston is represented by Artsite Contemporary, Sydney.

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