Lot 131 - Duncan Bullen - Reflection 1 V2

ARTIST INFO

About 

Duncan Bullen is an artist and academic with a primary interest in drawing. He studied at Great Yarmouth College of Art & Design and then Fine Art at Leeds Polytechnic in the mid 1980s, before completing his MA in Printmaking at the Royal College of Art in 1991. He was then a recipient of a Rome Scholarship, spending 1991-1992 at the British School at Rome. After this he undertook a series of residencies at the Eremo di Santa Caterina, a former hermitage on the Italian Island of Elba, where he held two exhibitions Lumen (with Lorry Eason) in 1998 and Night Prayers in 2004.  

Other residencies have included the Experimental Printmaking Institute, PA, USA in 2005, Art at Wharpuke, NZ 2011 and at Gordon House, Margate 2018-19, Between 2010-20, Duncan collaborated with the composer Jamie Crofts (aka Jim Simm) on Chromatic Fields, first published as an artist book in 2011 and later as a box set CD/DVD, by ANTS records, Roma in 2020. He has had several solo exhibitions, primarily at the Jill George Galley, London, between 1993-2004 and has participated in many internationally recognised shows in the United Kingdom, United States, Latin America, Africa, Asia and Europe. Many of his recent exhibitions, have been through Saturation Point, a curatorial platform for systems, non-objective and reductive art, mainly in the UK. 

Education 

1989-91  
Royal College of Art, MA (RCA), Printmaking  
1985-88  
Leeds Polytechnic, BA (Hons) Fine Art  
1983-85  
Gt Yarmouth College of Art & Design, BTEC Diploma  

Select Exhibitions/Awards 

2023  
Lines of Empathy, curated by Giulia Ricci, Close Ltd, Hatch Beauchamp, Somerset  
Lines of Empathy, curated by Giulia Ricci, Patrick Heide Gallery, London  
Rapture, curated by Emily Stevens, Lucianna Whittle & Jesse Leroy Smith, Regency Town House, Brighton 
2022  
Niagara Falls Project: Return, Gallery DODO, Brighton  
2021  
At a Tangent, curated by Ben Gooding, Cut Gallery, Halesworth  
2019  
8 Lines, curated by Saturation Point, Platform A Gallery, Middlesbrough  
Returning Now, curated by Lucy Lyons, Gordon House, Margate  
2018  
In Line, curated by Saturation Point, Griffin Gallery, London 
Marks Make Meaning: Drawing across disciplines, curated by Duncan Bullen and Philippa Lyon, University of Brighton  
Relative Trajectories, curated by Saturation Point, Agnus Hughes Gallery, London  
2017  
Stone Letter Project: Lighter but Heavier, Gallery, curated by Hiroshi Katayama, TRI-ANGLE, Takarazuka University, Japan 
Millimetre 02; Artists Badges: Particular conditions, Kingsgate Project Space, London 
2016  
The Drawing Works, curated by Davina Thackara, Camden Gallery, London 
Methodology of the Edition, curated by Duncan Bullen, Masayuki Nishimura and Kunjana Dumsopee Nagoya University of Art, King Mongurts Institute of Technology, Bangkok and University of Brighton 
Drawing Dialogues, curated by Duncan Bullen and Masahiro Suda, Nagoya University of Art, Japan 
2014  
Artizan Editions, Curwen Gallery, London 
Mobility of the Line, curated by Ivana Wingham, University of Brighton  
Combinations, curated by Mark Graver, Centre for Contemporary Printmaking, Seacourt, N. Ireland  
2013  
A Time to Keep Silence, Ian Rastrick Fine Art, St Albans (Solo)  
Parallel Prints, curated by Mark Graver, Art at Wharepuke, NZ  
Ian Rastrick Fine Art, St Albans, Galerie Apart, Le Bourg, France 
Aggregation, Art at Wharepuke, New Zealand 
2012  
Chromatic Fields (with Jamie Crofts) Ian Rastrick Fine Art, St Albans  
2011  
Chromatic Fields (with Jamie Crofts) Art at Wharepuke, New Zealand  
2009  
Drawing of the World, World of Drawing, Museum of Art, Seoul, Korea  
2008  
Figuring Light; Colour & the Intangible, Djanogly Gallery, Nottingham  
2006  
Silence and Light, Otter Gallery, University of Chichester (solo)  
Night Prayers, Star Gallery, Lewes (solo)  
2004  
Night Prayers, Eremo di Santa Caterina, Elba, Italy (solo)  
Blank Canvas, Foster Art, London  
2003  
From Silence, Jill George Gallery, London (solo)  
Hortulus Animae, Eremo di Santa Caterina, Elba, Italy  
Momentum, Keller & Greene Gallery, Los Angeles, USA  
Ex-Press, Printmaking from the RCA, Gulbenkian Galleries, London  
2002  
Still, White Gallery, Brighton (solo)  
2001  
Dark Light, Jill George Gallery, London (solo)  
1999  
Hermetica, Jill George Gallery, London (solo)  
Lumen (with Lorry Eason), Allenheads Centre for Contemporary Art, Northumberland  
1997  
Isola, Jill George Gallery, London (solo)  
1995  
New Paintings, Jill George Gallery, London (solo)  
1992  
Millenovecentonovantadue, British School at Rome 

Gallery Representation 

The Drawing Works 

Statement about AOAP Submitted Artwork 

These two postcards are based on an ongoing series of drawings called Colour Reflections. Each drawing consists of ruled pencil lines using the order they are arranged in the tin, equally, without preference for one colour over another. The process is simple; on a drawing board with a ruler, I take one colour and draw a straight line, then another, and then another; each time, I place the pencil I just used on the other side of my work surface. After each drawn line, I moved the ruler at an equal distance; once all selected colours were drawn, I began again. This time I am starting from the opposite end of the palette producing a reflection of drawn colours. 

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