Tom Bull
Tom Bull (b. 1995, Northamptonshire, UK) is an artist based in London, UK. His sculptures, videos and installations explore the tension-filled landscapes of urban and rural life. With a wide range of tools and materials borrowed from vernacular architecture, aspirational design, folk horror, heavy industry, and rural craft. Bull employs a sculptural practice that investigates the uneasy frictions between hedonism and austerity, escapism and reality, desire and violence, and tradition and rupture. Bull's most recent work explores ‘country life’ by examining current issues of land, loss, community, nostalgia, access, labour and violence. These sculptures are nuanced and complex, not just imitating life but working within it. They do not seek answers to life’s ambiguities but highlight them, as well as their resultant anxieties, playing with them as a visual medium, giving them form and presence.
Tom Bull graduated with a BA Hons in Fine Art from Central Saint Martins, University of Arts London, UK (2018), and an MFA from Goldsmiths College, University of London, UK (2022). Bull has completed large-scale commissions for various institutions including Turf Projects, London, UK (2023); and Yetea Museum, Chilgok, Korea (2023). Solo exhibitions include OUTPOST Gallery x St Chads, Norwich, UK (2025); Mucciaccia Gallery, London, UK (2025); E-WERK, Freiburg, GER (2023). Other notable exhibitions include Collectible x Max Radford, Brussels, BEL (2025); Cob Gallery, London, UK (2024); General Expenses, Mexico City, MEX (2023); and South London Gallery, London, UK (2022). Bull was the recipient of Elephant Trust Fund (2024); New Contemporaries (2022); Gilbert Bayes Grant (2022), Thomas Scholarship, UCL (2020); and Associate Studio Programme, ACME (2019).
Press
PLASTER Staff Picks: Top exhibitions to visit - FU3L 2BURN (Solo), OUTPOST Gallery, Norwich, UK
https://www.ofluxo.net/fu3l-2burn-tom-bull-st-chads-london/
Article on GHOST FOLK ECSTASY (Solo), 2025
https://sculpturemagazine.art/tom-bull/
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
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 - ‘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 Fourum, London, UK.
2023 - ‘The Other Side of Paradise’, The Bomb Factory, London, UK.
2023 - ‘Precarious’, Art Exchange, Essex University, 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 - ‘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 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
2025 - Max Radford Gallery, Collectible, Brussels, BEL.
2024 - Minor Attractions, London, UK.
2024 - Max Radford Gallery, SWAB, Barcelona, ES.
2024 - Material, Mexico City, Mexico.
2022 - The Others, Turin, Italy.
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.