Tina Dempsey’s work begins with walking; meandering along beaches, clambering over rocks, wandering through woodland, anywhere that nurtures her relationship with nature, absorbing the landscape on foot.

During these wanderings, data is gathered; colour, sound, pattern, activity, artefacts, all of which gently build layered, sensory maps of the places she explores.
Field notes come to life through her collages, drawings and artist books, sharing a sensitive, responsive view of the places that inspired them.

CV

Tina Dempsey – Artist, Collector & Gentle Adventurer
Living & working on the North West Coast UK

Residencies
Lusignac, France 2024
Stiwdio Beaumaris, Anglesey, Wales 2024
Top Shed, Norfolk 2024
The Mount, Fleetwood, Lancashire 2022-23

Solo and Joint Exhibitions
Grounding, Grundy Art Gallery, Blackpool 2025
soil.asleep.chill, The Whitaker Museum & Art Gallery 2022
Art for Everyone, Bolton Museum Young Producers & Bolton Culture Champions 2022
Imagine a world, Harris Museum & Art Gallery, Preston 2020
JOY, Grundy Gallery, Blackpool 2019
Songs for Strangers, Fylde Gallery, 2019
DETACHED, Garth Gratrix, AIR Gallery, Altrincham 2019
Semi-detached, Garth Gratrix, Hanover Project, Preston 2017

Group Exhibitions
The Manchester Contemporary, Abingdon Studios, Manchester 2024
At Waters Edge, Abingdon Studios, Blackpool 2023
The Manchester Contemporary, Abingdon Studios, Manchester 2023
The Manchester Contemporary, Abingdon Studios, Manchester 2022
Watch This Space, Grundy Gallery, Blackpool 2022
Common Place, AIR Gallery, Altringham 2022
Bodfa Continuum, Plas Bodfa, Anglesey 2022
Paste Table Group Show, Tension Fine Art, London 2022
The Manchester Contemporary, Abingdon Studios stand, Manchester 2021
Warrington Open 2020, Warrington Museum & Art Gallery, Warrington 2020
Inner Landscapes, Hilbert Raum Gallery, Berlin 2019
Inner Landscapes: A Snapshot, Paper Gallery, Manchester 2019
Warrington Open 2019, Warrington Museum & Art Gallery, Warrington 2019
Paste Table Gallery, Putney Library, London 2018
Twice as Nice, PS Mirabel, Manchester, 2018
Tracing PAPER, PAPER Gallery, Manchester, 2018
KAOS Festival of Contemporary Collage, Layer House, Slovenia, 2018
Something Or Nothing, Abingdon Studios Blackpool, 2018
Outcome, PR1 Gallery, Preston 2018
On – Going, SLOE Gallery, Manchester, 2017
AIR Open 2017, AIR Gallery, Altringham, 2017
Looking In, Looking Through, Neo:gallery23, Bolton, 2017
Small World, PS Mirabel, Manchester, 2017
Bath Open Art Prize, 44AD Gallery, Bath, 2017 (2nd Prize)

Acquisitions
Private collectors
Whitaker Museum & Art Gallery, Contemporary Art Collection
Harris Museum & Art Gallery, Contemporary Art Collection
Centre for Fine Print Research, University of West England, Bristol

Funding
Coastal Studies, Ongoing self-funded coastal research
Abingdon Studio Members Bursary, ACE funded 2022
Jerwood 1:1 Fund, Jerwood Arts Nov 21-March 22
DYCP Fund – Arts Council England May-Nov 2021
Time Space Money, a-n bursary 2020
LeftCoast Express 6, 2019

Qualifications
BA (First Class Honours) Fine Art, University of Central Lancashire, Preston, 2013-2016
Art & Design Foundation Degree, University of Central Lancashire, Preston, 2012-2013