Overview

“I make sculpture in the absurd attempt to capture the lived experience within these dark, strange and untrustworthy times." - Tom Bull

Through a landscape of folk, rural living, modernity and ritual, Tom Bull investigates the tension and slippage between fiction and representation, violence and sensitivity, truth and mythology.

 

With a wide range of tools and materials borrowed from architecture, model making, carpentry, aspirational design, preservation, farming and forestry, he employs a sculptural practice that confronts and manipulates traditions, time periods, lore and genre.

 

In his most recent work, Bull interrogates ‘country life’ by confronting personal and collective issues around land, loss, community, wealth, access, labour and violence.

Biography
Tom Bull (b. 1995) is an artist based in London. He graduated from a BA Fine Art in Sculpture at Central Saint Martins, University of Arts London in 2018, an MA in Fine Art at Goldsmiths, University of London, graduating in September 2022.
 
He has received multiple awards including the London Bronze Casting Fellowship (2023), the Hari Graduate Art Prize (2022), selected by Gavin Turk, Liz Gilmore, Matthew Burrows, and Aindrea Emelife, the Visions in the Nunnery (2022), selected by Patrick Goddard and the Gilbert Bayes Award from the Royal Society of Sculptors (2022). He was selected for Bloomberg New Contemporaries 2022. In 2021, He was awarded the Goldsmiths tuition fee waiver for academic excellence during his Masters and the Thomas Scholarship from UCL. He undertook the Associate Studio Programme, a three-year residency at Acme Studios from 2019, and the Sudgen Arts Fellowship in 2018. 
 
Recent selected exhibitions include: Will-o'-the-wisp by Des Bains, (The Others Art Fair, Turin, Italy, 2022), New Contemporaries, (Ferens Gallery, Hull, 2022), ABSURD (What Does It All Really Mean?), (OHSH Projects, London, 2022), Groundwork, (STUDIO WEST, London, 2022), Sublime Rage, (French Place, London, 2022), Model Village, (Amersham Arms, London, 2022), HDL, (Xxijra Hii, London, 2021), I Give You an Onion, (Protein Studios, London, 2018), Here-and-Now, (Lever Gallery, London, 2018), The Studio, (TATE Switch House, London, 2018), Publish and Disseminate, (Tenderbooks, London, 2018), Truth Lies (Blitz Gallery, Malta, 2017) and Altered Realities (Lethaby Gallery, London, 2017).
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