Tom Bull

Tom Bull (b. 1995, Northamptonshire) makes sculptures and video installations in an absurd attempt to capture the lived exprience within these dark, strange and unstrustworthy times. Working and living in London, 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 whin them as a visual medium, giving them form and presence.