Cherry Tenneson’s practice involves making maps/diagrams of her view and experience whilst sitting at desks. She mostly documents her own studio desk top, including objects that end up there (such as crisps, books or milk cartons). These maps are influenced by Tenneson’s preoccupation with the banal side of bureaucratic scenarios and the inanity of certain instructional graphics. She places herself in the role of a lone 'desk worker', endlessly producing banal information about the experience of this self-inflicted role.

Cherry Tenneson was born in 1980 in Liverpool. She studied BA Interactive Arts at Manchester School of Art, and completed MA Fine Art, MIRIAD, Manchester School of Art in 2004. Solo exhibitions include: ‘Red Tape’ (Tenneson & Dale) Stockport Art Gallery, Stockport and Order Order (Tenneson & Dale) Cornerhouse Projects, Cornerhouse, Manchester, both in 2007; O T Apartment Residency, Lamp r Court, Manchester in 2006; and Desk Information for Toilet Users Arena, Liverpool. Liverpool Biennial Independents ’06. Recent group exhibitions include: Urban/Ecology (Tenneson & Dale) Albert Dock, Liverpool. Liverpool Biennial Independents ’08; Becks Fusions Launch 2008, Urbis, Manchester; Meeting Point, Axel Lapp Projects, Berlin in 2007. In collaboration with artist Nicola Dale, Tenneson & Dale were shortlisted for the Manchester Art Prize in 2005.