Art on a Postcard x St Wilfrid's Hospice: The Postcards

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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