Tom Bull
b. 1995, Northamptonshire, UK.
Lives and works in London.
Tom Bull makes sculptures and video installations in an absurd attempt to capture the lived experience within these dark, strange and untrustworthy times. Through the landscape of folklore, urbanisation and rituals, 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, craft, aspirational design, preservation, farming and forestry, Bull employs a sculptural practice that confronts and manipulates traditions, time periods, lore and genre. His most recent works interrogate “country life” by challenging issues around land, loss, community, wealth, nostalgia, access, labour and violence. These sculptures are nuanced and complex, not just imitating life but working within it, for they do not seek answers to life’s ambiguities instead they highlight them as well as their resultant anxieties, playing with them as a visual medium, giving them form and presence.
Press
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
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/
Write up of the work at 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
Solo Exhibitions.
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
2024 - ‘Rooted’, Berntson Bhattacharjee, London, UK.
2024 - (Duo show with Marieke Bernard-Berkel), ‘All the world's a stage’, Sherbet Green, London, UK.
2024 - (Duo show 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 show 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 Fourum, London, UK.
2023 - ‘The Other Side of Paradise’, The Bomb Factory, London, UK.
2023 - ‘Precarious’, Art Exchange, Essex University, UK.
2022 - (Duo show 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 - ‘Visons 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 show 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, Valencia, Malta.
2017 - ‘Altered Realities’, Lethaby Gallery, London, UK.
Art Fairs
2024 - Material, Mexico City, Mexico.
2022 - The Others, Turin, Italy.
Public Talks & Teaching
2023 - Interview with What the Frame, London, UK.
2022 - Personal mentor for the graduate residency programme at Airspace Gallery, Stoke-on-Trent, UK.
2022 - Artist Talk, Studio West, London, UK.
2022 - Artist Talk, NN Contemporary, Northampton, UK.
2018 - Graduate Teaching Associate, Central Saint Martins, University of Arts London, London, UK.
2018 - Artist Talk, Lethaby Gallery, London, UK.
Residencies & Awards
2024 - Elephant Trust Award.
2024 - Eaton Fund Grant.
2023 - Chilgok International Transmedia Festival, Yetea Museum, Korea.
2023 - Turf Projects ‘Desire Paths’ public commission.
2023 - ACS Studio Prize Finalist.
2023 - London Bronze Casting Fellowship.
2022 - New Contemporaries recipient.
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 Arts London.
2015 - Foundation, Fine Art, Northampton University.