Gary Dempsey is an Irish visual artist and printmaker. He received a B.A honours degree in fine-art printmaking from the limerick school of art and design in 2011, whereupon he was awarded an emerging artist bursary from Cork printmakers. After relocating to Cork, Dempsey was an active member of Cork printmakers, Sample studio and later the Backwater artist collective. In 2013 he co-founded the Machismo project, a series of art exhibitions and public symposiums held throughout Ireland which focused on establishing a public dialogue on modern masculinities. The project was complimented by a documentary of the same name and was awarded the Arts the Project Bursary Award from Cork city council. He was an artist in residence at the National sculpture Factory, Cork 2013/14. He held his first solo exhibition entitled 'fatuously forlorn' at the Guesthouse Project Space, cork 2014, after which he took a year's hiatus to travel throughout Asia with his wife. He has shown extensively throughout Ireland and internationally including exhibitions in New York, U.S.A, London, England and Berlin, Germany. He currently works out of Limerick Printmakers.