Tom Bull
Tom Bull (b. 1995, Northamptonshire, UK) is a London-based artist working across sculpture, video, and installation. His practice explores the uneasy relationship between urban and rural life, drawing on materials and techniques from vernacular architecture, aspirational design, countercultures, folk horror, heavy industry, and rural craft. Using materials including steel, timber, cardboard, expanding foam, bitumen and found objects, he constructs hybrid forms shaped by opposing conditions such as hedonism and restraint, escapism and reality, desire and violence, and tradition and transformation.
Bull’s recent work focuses on ideas of country life, examining how land, loss, community, nostalgia, access, labour, and control are shaped and contested. His sculptures are layered and complex, engaging with lived experience rather than simply representing it. They do not seek to resolve life’s uncertainties but instead draw attention to them, giving form and presence to the tensions and anxieties they produce.
Bull graduated with a BA (Hons) in Fine Art from Central Saint Martins (2018) and an MFA from Goldsmiths, University of London (2022). He has completed large-scale commissions for institutions including Turf Projects, London (2023), and Yetea Museum, Chilgok, Korea (2023). Solo exhibitions include OUTPOST Gallery x St Chads, Norwich (2025); Mucciaccia Gallery, London (2025); and E-WERK, Freiburg (2023). Recent group exhibitions include Collectible x Max Radford, Brussels (2025); Cob Gallery, London (2024); General Expenses, Mexico City (2023); and South London Gallery (2022). He is a recipient of the Elephant Trust Award (2024), New Contemporaries (2022), the Gilbert Bayes Grant (2022), and the Thomas Scholarship, UCL (2020).
Solo Exhibitions
2027 - Forthcoming, Hancock Shaker Village, MA, US
2026 - Forthcoming, Max Radford Gallery & Monna Residency, NYC, US
2025 - ‘FU3L 2BURN’, OUTPOST Gallery & St. Chads, Norwich, UK
2025 - ‘GHOST FOLK ECSTASY’, Mucciaccia Gallery, London, UK
2023 - ‘Under Cover of Darkness’, E-Werk, Freiburg, Germany
2019 - ‘To Whom Do You Trust with the Spare Keys’, Airspace Gallery, Stoke-on-Trent, UK
Selected Group Exhibitions
2025 - ‘Salon’, Slug Town, Newcastle, UK
2025 - ‘Soft Landing’, Palmer Gallery, London, UK
2025 - ‘Pilgrims End’, Max Radford Gallery, London, UK
2024 - ‘Rooted’, Berntson Bhattacharjee, London, UK
2024 - (Duo with Marieke Bernard-Berkel), ‘All the world's a stage’, Sherbet Green, London, UK
2024 - (Duo with Sholto Blissett), ‘Alchemical Landscape’, Cob Gallery, London, UK
2023 - ‘Small Hours’, Alice Black, London, UK
2023 - ‘From Transparent Juices’, Curated by Laura Gonzalez, Lungley, London, UK
2023 - ‘Untitled’, Artvisor, London, UK
2023 - (Duo with Lewis Davidson), ‘Shallow Haunts’, Kupfer, London, UK
2023 - ‘La Caverna una Casa’, General Expenses, Mexico City, Mexico
2023 - ‘Disagreements as Domains of Nausea and Elation’, Austrian Cultural Forum, London, UK
2023 - ‘The Other Side of Paradise’, The Bomb Factory, London, UK
2023 - ‘Precarious’, Art Exchange, University of Essex, UK
2022 - (Duo with Clarissa Falco) ‘Frictions’, Monti 8, Latina, Italy
2022 - ‘New Contemporaries’, South London Gallery, UK
2022 - ‘To Feel Your Warmth’, Warbling, London, UK
2022 - ‘Ghost Show 2’, Copeland Gallery, London, UK
2022 - ‘Visions in the Nunnery’, (selected by Patrick Goddard), Nunnery Gallery, London, UK
2022 - ‘Reconstruct/Deconstruct’, OHSH Projects, London, UK
2022 - ‘Ground Works’, Studio West, London, UK
2022 - (Duo with Edmond Brooks-Beckman) ‘Carry the Day Out in Baskets’, St Chads, London, UK
2022 - ‘New Contemporaries’, Ferens Gallery, Hull, UK
2022 - ‘Breaking News’, VO-Curation, London, UK
2022 - ‘Sublime Rage’, French Place, London, UK
2022 - ‘Model Village’, Amersham Arms, London, UK
2021 - ‘HDL’, Xxijra Hii, London, UK
2021 - ‘Ghost Show’, Heartslane, London, UK
2019 - ‘Only Lovers’, Cock Tavern, London, UK
2018 - ‘I Give You an Onion’, Protein Studios, London, UK
2018 - ‘Untitled’, Lever Gallery, London, UK
2018 - ‘The Studio, TATE Switch House’, London, UK
2017 - ‘Publish & Disseminate’, Tenderpixel, London, UK
2017 - ‘Truth Lies’, Blitz Gallery, Valletta, Malta
2017 - ‘Altered Realities’, Lethaby Gallery, London, UK
Selected Press
New York Times, 2026
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/03/19/t-magazine/dorian-grinspan-home-upstate-new-york.html
The World of Interiors, 2026
https://www.worldofinteriors.com/story/max-radford-flat-london
FAD: The Top 5 Art Exhibitions to see in London right now
https://fadmagazine.com/2025/07/26/the-top-5-art-exhibitions-to-see-in-london-right-now-15/
PLASTER Magazine: Top exhibitions to visit - FU3L 2BURN (Solo), OUTPOST Gallery, Norwich, UK
https://www.ofluxo.net/fu3l-2burn-tom-bull-st-chads-london/
Sculpture Magazine: Article on GHOST FOLK ECSTASY (Solo), 2025
https://sculpturemagazine.art/tom-bull/
Contemporary Art Library, 2025
https://www.contemporaryartlibrary.org/project/tom-bull-at-mucciaccia-gallery-london-49212
Sight Unseen, 2025
https://www.sightunseen.com/2025/03/week-of-march-17-2025/
Interview with Floorr Magazine, 2024
https://www.floorrmagazine.com/issue-32/tom-bull
Contemporary Art Library, 2024
PLASTER Magazine, 2024
https://plastermagazine.com/articles/jacob-wilson-seen-report-rural-fantasies/
Under Cover of Darkness (Solo), E-WERK, Freiburg, Germany, 2023
https://kubaparis.com/submission/331822
Interview with Where’s The Frame? 2023
https://www.wherestheframe.com/post/in-conversation-with-tom-bull
Sight Unseen, 2023
Time Out - 12 artists you must see at Bloomberg New Contemporaries, 2022
FAD Magazine, 2022
https://fadmagazine.com/2022/10/04/absurd-what-does-it-all-really-mean/
Critical write-up of Goldsmiths Degree Show, 2022
https://recessed.space/00044-Goldsmiths-graduate-show
Interview for New Contemporaries, South London Gallery, 2022
https://www.newcontemporaries.org.uk/2022/artists/tom-bull
Take The Day Out in Baskets, St Chads, London, 2022
https://www.ofluxo.net/tag/take-the-day-out-in-baskets/
https://tzvetnik.online/article/take-the-day-out-in-baskets-group-show-at-st-chads-london
Sublime Rage, French Place, London, 2022
https://www.daily-lazy.com/2022/06/sublime-rage-at-french-place-london-uk.html
NN Contemporary, 2021
https://nncontemporaryart.org/ed_engagement/work-in-progress-with-tom-bull/
Art Fairs
2026 - Collect, London, UK
2025 - Collectible, Brussels, BEL
2024 - Minor Attractions, London, UK
2024 - SWAB, Barcelona, ES
2024 - Material, Mexico City, Mexico
2022 - The Others, Turin, Italy
Residencies & Awards
2026 - Max Radford Gallery x Monna Residency, NY, US.
2025 - Sculpture in the City - Shortlisted
2024 - Elephant Trust Award
2024 - Eaton Fund Grant
2023 - Chilgok International Transmedia Festival, Yetea Museum, Korea
2023 - Turf Projects Public Commission
2023 - ACS Studio Prize - Finalist
2023 - London Bronze Casting Fellowship
2022 - New Contemporaries
2022 - Gilbert Bayes Grant
2022 - Hari Graduate Art Prize, Selected by Gavin Turk, Liz Gilmore, Matthew Burrows, and Aindrea Emelife
2020 - Thomas Scholarship, UCL
2020 - Goldsmiths Tuition Fee Waiver for Academic Excellence
2019 - Associate Studio Programme, Two-year studio programme in collaboration with Acme Studios and CSM
2018 - Sudgen Arts Fellowship
Education
2022 - MFA, Fine Art, Goldsmiths, University of London
2018 - BA (Hons), Fine Art, Central Saint Martins, University of the Arts London
2015 - Foundation, Fine Art, University of Northampton