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Biography
Tessa Pullan

TESSA PULLAN, F.R.B.S., S.E.A.

Born 20 December 1953.

1971-1974 Three year apprenticeship with Professor John Skeaping R.A.
1974-1977 Three year Diploma course: City & Guilds of London Art school.
1977-1980 Three years at the Royal Academy of Arts - Postgraduate studies.
1980-1982 Working in own studio in Sandwich, Kent.
1982-1985 Working in own studio in Aberystwyth, Wales.
1985-1990 Working in own studio in Berkhamsted, Herts.
1990- Working in own studio in Barrowden, Rutland.


EXHIBITIONS

1976 Guildhall, London.
1978 Royal Academy, Diploma Galleries.
1979 Royal Academy, Summer Exhibition.
Royal Academy, Diploma Galleries.
1980 Royal Academy, Diploma Galleries.
1982 Royal Academy, Summer Exhibition.
Cork Street Fine Arts.
1983 Cork Street Fine Arts.
1983-1991 Messrs. Ackermann, Bond Street, London and Madison Avenue, New York.
1984 Royal Academy, Summer Exhibition
Bath Contempory Arts Festival.
Quinton Green Fine Arts, Cork Street, London.
1985 'Women Working in Wales' travelling exhibition.
'Where Wild Beast Roam', Gallery 24.
One-Woman show at Quinton Green Fine Arts, Cork Street, London.
1986 'Wild Lives' group exhibition at Parnham House, Dorset.
Worcester Arts Festival.
Society of Equestrian Artists, Mall Galleries.
1987 Royal Academy, Summer Exhibition.
Society of Equestrian Artists, Mall Galleries.
1988 Royal Academy, Summer Exhibition.
'A View From The Saddle', Ackermann¹s, Bond street.
The Cleveland Bridge Gallery, Bath.
1989 Society of Equestrian Artists, The Westminster Gallery.
1990 The Cleveland Bridge Gallery, Bath.
1991 Studio Exhibition with Victoria Goodman.
Society of Equestrian Artists, Christies.
One-woman show, John Hunt Gallery, Sussex.
1992 Tryon and Moorland Gallery, Cork Street, London.
1992-1997 The Old House Gallery, Oakham, Rutland.
John Hunt Gallery, Sussex.
Society of Equestrian Artists, Christies.
1993 Art 93 - The London Contempory Art Fair.
The Bruton Street Gallery, London.
The Society of Wildlife Artists, Mall Galleries, London.
Society of Equestrian Artists, Christies, London.
Joint Exhibition with John Skeaping R.A., Coughton Gallery, Market Harborough.
In the Mind's Eye, Mall Galleries, London.
1993-1997 Gallerie Les Hirondelles, Geneva.
Dyslexia Institute Awareness Week, Welcome Foundation, London.
Travelling exhibition, Germany.
1994 Society of Equestrian Artists, Carisbrook Gallery, London.
The Bruton Street Gallery, London.
1995 The Royal Academy, Summer Exhibition.
Roadworks III, Bilston, Wolverhampton.
John Hunt, Redchurch Galleries, Shoreditch, London.
1996 Art 96, The London Contempory Art Fair, The Business Design Centre, London.
'Ladies First', Redchurch Galleries, London.
Chelsea Art Fair.
One-woman show, Redchurch Galleries, London.
The Royal Academy, Summer Exhibition.
Coggeshall Arts & Craft Festival.
Welland Valley, Stamford Art Centre.
1997 Art 97, The London Contempory Art Fair.
Chelsea Art Fair.
Chelsea Harbour Exhibition.
Society of Equestrian Artists, Christies.
1998 Arts Dyslexia Trust, Christies, London.
Welland Valley, Stamford Art Centre.
The Thrill of the Chase, The Air Gallery, London.
Peterborough Arthouse.
One-woman show, Yarrow Gallery, Oundle.
1999 Society of Equestrian Artists, Christies.
Frank T Sabin, Albemarle Street, London.
Society of Equestrian Artists, Newmarket.
2000 Society of Equestrian Artists, Christies.
Nyad 2000 New York.
2001 Newby Hall Sculpture Park 2001-2002.
2002 Sculpture under English Skies, Frank T Sabin.
Sculpture in the Garden University of Leicester Harold Martin Botanic Garden.
“Animals of the African Savanna” one woman show Frank T Sabin.
2004 Autumn Exhibition The Gallery at Bulwick.
2005 Galerie Etienne de Causans Paris.
2005 Spring Exhibition Geedon Gallery.


COMMISSIONS

1976 Bronze Pointer - John Allen Esq.
1977 Bronze Statue of a horse - Lloyds Bank, Cambridge.
1979 Portrait of 'Stilvi' and foal - G.L. Cambanis Esq.
1980 Portrait of 'Troy', 200th Derby winner - Willie Carson.
1981 Portrait of Charles Hill-Wood Esq, Chairman of Arsenal Football Club.
1983 Portrait of 'Glint of Gold' - Paul Mellon Esq. Silver Portrait of 'Christmas Goose' - Paul Mellon Esq.
1984 Bronze Portrait of Paul Mellon Esq.
1986 2/3 life-size portrait of 'Christmas Goose' - Paul Mellon Esq.
1987 Portrait of Bishop Henry Wilson - Colin St John Wilson.
1988 Portrait of 'Forest Flower' - Paul Mellon Esq.
1989 Portrait of 'Soviet Star' - Sheik Mohammed.
Bronze Heraldic Falcon and Lion for Hambros Bank.
Portrait of Mark Davies on 'Normous' - Mr & Mrs J. Davies.
1992 Portrait of John Basket - Paul Mellon Esq.
Lion and Frog fountain - Stefa Hart.
1994 3/4 life-size portrait of 'Sea Hero', 1993 Kentucky Derby winner - Paul Mellon.
1995 Portrait of John Macdonald-Buchanan.
Maquette for Mounted Figure, Black Country Route, Bilston.
1996 3/4 life-size Memorial to the horses killed in the American Civil War - Paul Mellon
Half life-size Mounted figure for Bilston.
Life-size Wooden Tiger - Renaissance-Tig, L.U.C. London.
1997 One and a half life-size Mounted Figure for Bilsdon.
Life size Civil War Horse - Paul Mellon.
1998 Portrait of Bracken - Wendy Pullan.
1999 Life-size stag - Bob Wheatley
2000 Life-size wooden 'Odysseus' - Odyssey (America) RE.
2001 Life-size Hind - Mrs D.C.D. Johnson.
Portrait of Abbey - Mr & Mrs G Knight
2003 Greatdane - Sandra Rees.
2004 Hanna- Jill Nelson
Nanette Godfrey Memorial-Tudor Hall School
Dancer Bill Pickering
2006 Remy Christopher and Mary Elson.
Rosie & Basil Elaine Farrall.
2007 Muffie Fiona Ruddle.


WORKS IN PUBLIC COLLECTIONS

The National Portrait Gallery, London.
National Horseracing Museum, Newmarket.
Yale Center for British Art, New Haven, Connecticut.
The Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art, London.
The Centre for Hellenic Studies, Washington, D.C.
Clare College (Forbes-Mellon Library), Cambridge.
Choate Rosemary Hall, Wallingford, Connecticut.
Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, Richmond, Virginia.
Virginian Historical Society.
Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge.
New Hall Cambridge
Melton Carnegie Museum, Melton Mowbray


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