Emily Tull

Based in Kent, UK, Emily has been exhibiting in solo and group shows since 1998, she has shown internationally, throughout the UK, regularly in London but predominantly across Kent. Winning (2017) a Kent Creative Award for Visual Art (non digital) she has also been a finalist in the Winter Pride Awards (2015), Ruth Borchard Self Portrait Prize (2015, 2023), selected for the Royal Academy Summer Show, Wells Art Contemporary, Mall Galleries, and have been a contestant on Sky Art's Portrait Artist Of The Year in 2014. In 2023 Emily became a member of the Society of Graphic Fine Art.

Inspiration comes from many sources including Frank Auerbach, Lucien Freud, Francis Bacon, curiosity cabinets, song lyrics, Egyptian tomb painting, ripped wallpaper and the natural world. The artwork covers a range of subjects based upon everyday life and mythology.
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I am obsessed with faces.
They show a person’s life, and can look different on a daily basis, a perfect canvas to convey different sides of your character. But more than this my fascination is with the colouration and fragility of skin and within my portraits I strive to bring these issues across. My concern is more with the flesh then the actual likeness, but I want to equally portray th...

BA (HONS)Fine Art Degree-graduated from Kent Institute of Art & Design, Canterbury in 2000

SOLO
EXHIBITIONS
(selected) 'THE VALUE OF CREATURES'
8/9, 15/16, 22/23 & 29 NOVEMBER 2025
ARTS IN RAMSGATE, RAMSGATE, KENT

'THINGS I HOLD DEAR...AND OTHER THINGS'
24th NOV - 1st DEC 2021
YORK STREET GALLERY, RAMSGATE, KENT
'EMILY TULL @ NICE THINGS'
29th NOVEMBER - 12th DECEMBER 2018,
NICE THINGS, RAMSGATE, KENT

'EMILY TULL EXHIBITION
13th DECEMBER 2012– MAY 2013
PAR CAFE, ST JOHN STREET, LONDON

'FRAGMENTS'
2nd MAY - 31st AUGUST 2009
DECO 5, WHITSTABLE, KENT

‘EMILY TULL EXHIBITION’
12th AUGUST - 26th AUGUST 2005
NEVILL GALLERY, CANTERBURY

GROUP
SHOWS
(selected) ING DISCERNING EYE 2025
14th - 23rd NOVEMBER 2025
MALL GALLERIES, LONDON
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ROYAL SOCIETY OF MARINE ARTISTS OPEN EXHIBITION 2025
17th - 27th SEPTEMBER 2025
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