Emily Tull

Emily Tull graduated from KIAD in 2000. Since then, she has exhibited internationally, regularly in London, and across Kent in group and solo shows. Recently winning a Kent Creative Award for Visual Art she has also been a finalist in the Winter Pride Art Awards (2015), and selected for the Royal Academy's Summer Exhibition, Mall Galleries, Ruth Borchard Self Portrait Prize and have been a contestant in Sky Art's Portrait Artist of the Year 2014.
Inspiration comes from many sources including Lucien Freud, Francis Bacon, Curiosity Cabinets, ripped wallpaper, Egyptian tomb paintings and the Pre-Raphaelites. The work covers a range of subjects based upon everyday life and literature. Since 2011 I have used wildlife imagery to experiment with fabrics, predominately British species but I am also inspired by curiosity cabinet displays and my mother's bee collection. The actual sewing is quite a random act unless it is a face, where I start with the eye and work out from there. I will flit from colour to colour thread cross hatching, weaving the thread over and under until I am happy with the overall effect, I compare it to using colouring pencils. I am striving to close the gap to what is deemed 'craft' and what is art.

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

SOLO
EXHIBITIONS
(selected) 'EMILY TULL @ NICE THINGS'
29th NOVEMBER - 12th DECEMBER 2018,
NICE THINGS, RAMSGATE, KENT

'SUTURE'
2nd DECEMBER - 9th DECEMBER 2015,
YORK ST GALLERY, RAMSGATE, KENT

'PAST PRESENT'
27th NOVEMEBER – 4th DECEMBER 2013
YORK ST GALLERY, RAMSGATE, KENT

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

'EMILY'S WEIRD WORKINGS'
19th JULY - 25th JULY 2012
PIE FACTORY POP UP SHOP, MARGATE, KENT

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

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

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