Emily Tull
Ramsgate based artist Emily Tull graduated from KIAD in 2000. Since then, she has exhibited internationally in Belgium and Edinburgh and regularly in London, Birmingham and across East Kent in group and solo shows. Recently being a finalist in the Winter Pride Art Awards, also selected for the Royal Academy's Summer Exhibition, Mall Galleries, Ruth Borchard Self Portrait Prize and being a contestant in Sky Art's Portrait Artist of the Year 2104.
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. For the last six years I have used wildlife imagery to experiment with fabrics, predominately British species but I am 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.
Publications: 'Artist Profile: Emily Tull' – Textile Fibre Forum Magazine (issue 124 Dec 2016)
'Emily Tull' – Art Reveal Magazine (issue no 13 Feb 2016)
'Portraits In Thread' – Be Creative With Workbox (issue 153 Jan/Feb 2016)
'From Sketch To Stitch' – Stitch Magazine (issue 96 Aug – Sept 2015)
'A Portrait Artist of the Year: A Little Book of Portraits: Beyond the Canvas' (2014), Quadrille publishing LTD
AWARDS: First prize for 'I Am Here' – UCL 2015
Highly Commended for 'Fragile #2' – RBSA 2008
COMPETITIONS: Finalist, Emerald Winter Prize Art Award 2016
Regional Finalist, Sky Arts Portrait Artist of the Year 2014. Sky Arts.
Shortlisted, Ruth Borchard Self Portrait Prize 2015
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. For the last six years I have used wildlife imagery to experiment with fabrics, predominately British species but I am 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.
Publications: 'Artist Profile: Emily Tull' – Textile Fibre Forum Magazine (issue 124 Dec 2016)
'Emily Tull' – Art Reveal Magazine (issue no 13 Feb 2016)
'Portraits In Thread' – Be Creative With Workbox (issue 153 Jan/Feb 2016)
'From Sketch To Stitch' – Stitch Magazine (issue 96 Aug – Sept 2015)
'A Portrait Artist of the Year: A Little Book of Portraits: Beyond the Canvas' (2014), Quadrille publishing LTD
AWARDS: First prize for 'I Am Here' – UCL 2015
Highly Commended for 'Fragile #2' – RBSA 2008
COMPETITIONS: Finalist, Emerald Winter Prize Art Award 2016
Regional Finalist, Sky Arts Portrait Artist of the Year 2014. Sky Arts.
Shortlisted, Ruth Borchard Self Portrait Prize 2015
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