Biography
Ramsgate based artist Emily Tull graduated from KIAD in 2000. Since then, she has exhibited in London, Birmingham and regularly across East Kent in group and solo shows.This year being selected for the Royal Academy's Summer Exhibition.
My work covers a range of subjects based upon everyday life and mythology (inspiration comes from many areas including fashion, Lucien Freud, sleep movement, Pre-Raphaelites, Egyptian tomb painting and films). Many of the portraits tend to be severely cropped, exposing the face to close scrutiny, emphasising the fragility of the face. Sewing takes the place of drawing, abstracting the face, with the thread melting into the delicate ‘skin’. My nature pieces come from a love of botanical illustrations, curiosity cabinets and my mother's bee collection.
