Education & Qualifications:

2024-25                                  PhD by Publication, University of Brighton

2016-17                                    Senior Fellow, Higher Education Academy

1989-89                                  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

 

Awards & Residencies:

2018-19                                 Artist in residence, Gordon House, Margate

2011                                        Artist in residence, Art at Wharpuke, New Zealan

2005                                      Artist/Scholar Experimental Printmaking Institute, PA, USA

1992-2004                            Artist in residence - Eremo di Santa Caterina, Isola d’ Elba, Italy

1991-92                                  Rome Scholarship, British School at Rome, Italy.

1990                                         Artist in Residence, Cite International des Arts, Paris

 

Published Texts:

Bullen, D. (2025), Mind Like Water: Drawing the Still Point, in Drawing in Health and Wellbeing: Marks, Signs and Traces. Edited by C. Scott and P. Lyon. London: Bloomsbury.

Bullen, D. (2021), Being Resident: Gordon House, Drawing Heritage(s). N. Tatovic and S, Hossain. Portugal, p. 14-25 114

Bullen, D. (2019), Practicing Presence: Drawing Near and Far, TRACEY: Drawing||Phenomenology: tracing lived experience through drawing

Bullen, D., Fox, J., Lyon, P. (2017) Practice-infused drawing research: being present and making present, Drawing: Research, Theory, Practice 2 (1) pp.129-142, Intellect Limited.

A short review of Alan Reynolds: A Small Retrospective. Works from 1951-2014, Annely Juda Fine Art, 14 February - 18 April 2019.

http://www.saturationpoint.org.uk/Alan%20Reynolds%202019.html

Bullen, D. (2013), Chromatic Fields: Print Media and the Artists’ Book, Intersections & Counterpoints: Proceedings of Impact 7: An International Multi-Disciplinary Printmaking Conference, Luke Morgan (ed), Monash Art and Design. Melbourne: Monash University Publishing.

Bullen, D. (2013). Drawing Colour: Between the Line and the Field, in The Mobility of the Line, edited by I. Wingham. Basel: Birkhauser Verlag.

Bullen, D. (2012), Drawing Light, Journal of the International Colour Association vol 6,6-13.

Published Interviews:

Bullen, D., and Ricci, G. (2022). Interview with Duncan Bullen by Giulia Ricci. Lines of Empathy pp. 23-26. London: Lines of Empathy Press.

Bullen, D., and Gooding, B. (2015). Interview with Duncan Bullen by Ben Gooding for Saturation Point: The curatorial and editorial project for systems, non-objective, and reductive artists working in the UK, November 2015.

Bullen, D., and Davey, R. (2008). Colour Conversations, in Figuring Light: Colour and the Intangible pp 18-19. Nottingham: Djanogly Art Gallery.

 

Conference and Symposium presentations:

Bullen, D. (2022). Drawing the Still Point. Still Landscapes. Online. 09 March, Portugal: University of Evora. Available at

Bullen, D. (2020). More Culture, Less Medicine Online 23-26 November, Brighton.

Bullen, D. (2019). Drawing Proximity: Dwelling and Being Present, (Keynote), Drawing Heritages, 28 September. Portugal: University of Evora.

Bullen, D., Fox, J., Lyon, P. (2019). Touching the World Lightly, 21- 25 Jan. Norway: Oslo National Academy of the Arts.

Bullen, D. (2017). Drawing Presence, Drawing Phenomenology: tracing lived experience through drawing. 20 September.  Loughborough: University of Loughborough

Bullen, D. (2019). How is Arts Practice Research engaging with Health and Wellbeing? More Culture, Less Medicine, 12 June. Brighton: University of Brighton.

Bullen, D., and Radvan, J., (2017). Drawing urban spaces: a method of researching, navigating and articulating a sense of place, 4th International Visual Methods conference, 17 September. Brighton: University of Brighton.

Bullen, D, Fox, J., Lyon, P. (2016). Drawing: being present, making present. NAFAE symposium Practice Research, Research Practice. 15 July. Lancaster:

Bullen, D. and Rogers, A. (2015). Both/And: Drawing and the Tolerance of Ambiguity. Thinking through Drawing. 7 November. London:

Bullen, D. (2015). Drawing Breath, 10 December 2015, Gravity. Sheffield: Sheffield Hallam University.

Bullen, D. (2015). Drawing as Mindfulness, The Visual and the Verbal, 17 June 2015. Brighton: University of Brighton.

Bullen, D., Bustin, J., Davey, R., Kenton-Webb, R., Partridge, R., (2008) Roundtable Discussion, Figuring Light, Nottingham: Djanogly Gallery.