Tom Bull (b. 1995, Northamptonshire) makes sculptures and video installations in an absurd attempt to capture the lived experience within these dark, strange and untrustworthy 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 with them as a visual medium, giving them form and presence.
Works

Acid Peat, 2023

Amateur Peg Rail Project (chrome yellow), 2026

Amateur Peg Rail Project (red ochre), 2026

Black & Neon (diptych), 2026

Black & White Stars, 2026

But A Dream That’s Getting Cold (1), 2023

But A Dream That’s Getting Cold (2), 2023

Feeder, 2023

Feeder III, 2023

Form = Function, 2026

GHOST FOLK ECSTASY, 2025

Glow in the Dark Star (city), 2026

Glow in the Dark Star (village), 2026

HARDCORE COTTAGECORE (balloons), 2026

Hardcore Cottagecore (Hammered Black), 2026

Hardcore Cottagecore (Shaker Edition), 2025

HARDCORE COTTAGECORE (star), 2026

Hardcore Cottagecore #II, 2023

HARDCORE Metal Star, 2026

HARDCORE with Stars, 2026

Historic American Buildings Survey (chrome green), 2026

Historic American Buildings Survey (red ochre), 2026

Historic American Buildings Survey (shadow), 2026

I <3 Spirals (ritual), 2026

I <3 Spirals (staircase), 2026

Made more HARDCORE Stars, 2026

Metal FEEDER (day), 2026

Metal FEEDER (night), 2026

Mosh Pit (Rock My Religion), 2026

Oiled Star, 2026

SHAKE SHAKE SHAKE, 2024

Shaker FEEDER, 2026

Shaker Fever, 2026

Shaker Museum, 2026

SOCIETY OF BELIEVERS, 2026

Stock Image (Shaker village with rainbow), 2026

Window x Fence, 2026