Madeleine Preston is a visual artist, curator and educator. Her work uses materials often viewed as the province of women, specifically ceramics and textiles, to comment on how value is determined through gender.

A ceramic residency with Lynda Draper in 2014 altered the focus of her practice from 2D to 3D and opened up opportunities and audiences for her work.

In 2017 she was awarded the Woollahra Small Sculpture special commendation prize and an Australia Council Development Grant, A Copyright Ignite Grant and a NAVA Artists Grant.

Madeleine has exhibited nationally in institutional and commercial galleries, including at Melbourne’s Gertrude Contemporary and Sydney's Pom Pom Galerie, and most recently at Sydney Contemporary with Blackartprojects. She has undertaken residencies at the Cité Internationale des Arts in Paris, the Slade in London, and was awarded a Full Sculpture Fellowship at the Vermont Studio Center in the USA.

Madeleine has lectured on Professional Practice at the National Art School and is the co-director of Home@735 Gallery in Surry Hills.