Duncan Bullen (b.1962) studied at Great Yarmouth College of Art and Design and Leeds Polytechnic in the 1980s. He graduated in Printmaking from the Royal College of Art in 1991, the same year he received a year-long Scholarship to the British School at Rome. He began his exhibition career with the Jill George Gallery in London in 1993, where he has held several solo exhibitions. Since then, Duncan has participated in artist residencies in the US, the UK, and New Zealand, made several research trips to Japan and Korea, and exhibits internationally. Between 2010 and 2020, 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, Rome, in 2020. His recent exhibitions have been through Saturation Point, a curatorial platform for systems, non-objective and reductive art.

He worked at the University of Brighton for 25 years, holding key roles including Associate Dean, Head of Fine Art, and Course Leader for Printmaking. He established the Centre for Arts and Wellbeing and was its first director. Duncan has presented conference papers and written about his practice-based research in book chapters and journal articles, and co-curated exhibitions in the UK, Japan and Thailand. He is a Senior Fellow of the Higher Education Academy. In 2024, he began a PhD by Publication and completed his doctorate in 2025 with a thesis titled Singularity of Present Moment Experience: Mindfulness as Drawing, Drawing as Mindfulness. He is an Honorary Fellow at the University of Brighton. He relocated to Rhossili on the Gower Peninsula in South Wales, where he now lives and works.