Spencer Dent is a London-born, Manchester-based multimedia artist. They studied Fine Art Photography at Glasgow School of Art, graduating in 2022. Their work focuses on the topics of shape, form and the organic environment. Their practice employs a variety of mediums to explore these themes including photography, printmaking, weaving, sculpture and painting. Often, these mediums intermingle and are used concurrently within a single work. Their practice is focused on how shape and form can be distorted for the viewer, creating visuals that read as intangible or even confusing for the viewer. Through iterative experimentation and material play, they invite viewers to encounter fluid perspectives that challenge conventional boundaries between form, abstraction and medium in contemporary art.
Ravensbourne University - Foundation Diploma in Art and Design (Distinction) - 2018-2019
Glasgow School of Art - Fine Art BA (First Class) - 2019-2022
2022, 'Best of Scottish Art Schools Grad Show' - artpistol, United Kingdom
2022, Private Show at Pinsent Masons Law Firm, United Kingdom
2022, 'FUTUREPROOF 2022' - Stills & Street Level Photoworks, United Kingdom
2023, 'Re-Focus' - Glasgow Project Room, United Kingdom
2023, 'GRRL TELEPHONE,' Loophole Berlin, Germany
2023, 'John Byrne Award Nominees Exhibition,' Summerhall Edinburgh, United Kingdom
2023, 'MIRROR/MIRROR,' Stirling Photography Festival, Tolbooth Gallery, United Kingdom
2023, 'The Expanded Drawing Week,' Edinburgh Palette, United Kingdom
2023, 'Please Pay For Your Shopping Before Entering The Toilet,' OuterSpaces Studios Glasgow, United Kingdom
2024, 'Keyline,' Glasgow Print Studio Gallery, United Kingdom
2024, 'Art Revolution Taipei,' X-Power Gallery, Taiwan
2024, 'Removed Past,' City of Gold Gallery, Germany
2024, 'I'll Let You Go,' WRS Studios, United Kingdom
2025,'Living Lines and Shifting Forms,' N. Atelier, United Kingdom
2025, 'īeg,' Bar Gandolfi, United Kingdom
2025, 'A Window of One's Own,' Barnes Building, United Kingdom
2025, 'PRESENT, Beautiful Materials Gallery, United Kingdom
2026, 'Amoeba,' Stockroom, United Kingdom
2026, 'LOVE ME,' Beautiful Materials Gallery, United Kingdom
2026, 'LUMINARIUM,' Saan1, United Kingdom
2026, 'the images astound you' part of 'SHOW AND TELL' by DMZ STUDIO, Sheena Simon Campus, United Kingdom
2023, 'Re-Focus' - Glasgow Project Room, United Kingdom
2023, 'Please Pay For Your Shopping Before Entering The Toilet,' OuterSpaces Studios Glasgow, United Kingdom
2024, 'Removed Past,' City of Gold Gallery, Germany
2024, 'I'll Let You Go,' WRS Studios, United Kingdom
2025, 'Beautiful Materials: A Solo Show of New Works,' Nicola Atkinson, Linlithgow Burgh Halls, Linlithgow
2025, 'Vessels,' Nicola Atkinson, Beautiful Materials Gallery, Glasgow
2025, 'PRESENT,' Group Shop, Beautiful Materials Gallery
2026, 'the images astound you' part of 'SHOW AND TELL' by DMZ STUDIO, Sheena Simon Campus, United Kingdom
2022, Glasgow Project Room Graduate Residency Award
2022, Shortlisted for SaltSpace Co-op CIC Graduate Award
2022, Shortlisted for The John Byrne Award
2023, Finalist for Art Revolution Taipei
2021, 'Untitled,' from 'Genderlessness' project, The Wall Publication, vol. 1
2021, 'Cellular Device,' Self Published Digital Zine, 2021-2024
2022, 'Untitled,' from 'Genderlessness' project, The Skinny, Degree Show Special
2022, 'Untitled' from 'Genderlessness' project, The National, Futureproof 2022 Review by Mark Brown
2025, Documentation photos in: 'Nicola Atkinson's Material World Opens in Newton Mearns', ArtMag
2022, Glasgow Project Room
2022, SaltSpace Co-op
2022, 'Futureproof 2022 Artist Talks,' Street Level Photoworks
2023, 'Stirling Photography Festival,' Tolbooth Gallery
2023, 'The Expanded Drawing Week,' Edinburgh Palette
2025, 'SoFA Professional Practice Talks,' Glasgow School of Art