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"I hold a BA in Fine Art from Central Saint Martins (2016) and an MFA from Goldsmiths University (2022). I have exhibited internationally, including TATE Switch House, The Others Art Fair Turin, South London Gallery, Ferens Art Gallery Hull, Blitz Gallery Malta, Xxijra Hii London and Airspace Gallery in Stoke-on-Trent. I have received multiple awards this year including the London Bronze Casting Fellowship, Hari Graduate Art Prize, Visions in the Nunnery and the Gilbert Bayes Award. I have also been selected for New Contemporaries exhibition (2022-2023) and was featured in Time Out's ""12 amazing artists you have to see at New Contemporaries"". I also have an upcoming solo show at E-WERK Freiburg and Des Bains in London. In addition to this I am currently a personal mentor for a graduate in residence at Airspace Gallery, Stoke-on-Trent, UK. I have also conducted multiple artist talks at NN Contemporary, Studio West, and Lethaby Gallery. I was also a Graduate Teaching Associate at Central Saint Martins, University of Arts London for two years. Other awards include; Thomas Scholarship, UCL, Goldsmiths tuition fee waiver for academic excellence, Associate Studio Programme (two-year studio programme in collaboration with Acme Studios and CSM) and the Sudgen Arts Fellowship. "I am a cross-disciplinary artist who engages with forms and ideas through the studio and critical theory. It is of importance that my research based practice runs alongside my studio concerns, for it keeps things dynamic and interesting. Tom Bull makes sculptures in an absurd attempt to capture the lived experience within these dark, strange and untrustworthy times. Through a landscape of folk, rural living, modernity and rituals, he 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, Bull employs a sculptural practice that confronts and manipulates traditions, time periods, lore and genre. His most recent work interrogates country life by challenging issues around land, loss, community, wealth, access, labour and violence. " Sculptural techniques, how to approach and incorporate research into your practice, theory around ruralism, modernity, capitalism, folk, horror, craft, pedagogy and tradition. I have also written two in depth dissertations (both marked with a high distinctions/firsts) on hermeneutics and folk horror in contemporary culture.

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