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Working in an interdisciplinary method, Tulis creates visual experiences ranging from the fine art object & elements engaged with architecture, to band posters and fan paraphernalia, selfi portraits and 18c methods of photo printing, exploring a range of millennial/medieval values.

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Tulis views work as a craft by which to explore a personal mythology, making a platform for the viewer’s memory and emotions.  Central to this working process are drawings. In these, material facts are documented by noting the drama that arises from interaction with the subject – they are the sensual records of a pursuit of the ideal. These gestures of setting aside and putting together are intuitive; yet also subtly question historiography, the conventional museum structure, and the dogmas of the academy.

By restating forms and borrowing from age-old vocabularies, Tulis’ work slides into a fluctuating set of self-prescribed limitations and ideals. An outward manifestation of an inner world is built, peopled with, often autobiographical, exoskeleton beings. Insects, with their highly [emotionally] sensitive, elegant yet fragile anatomy are married to the protective qualities of armor.

These sensual companions of the minds fancy -experienceing betrayals, ecstasies, desire, worship - seek to escape the cognitive dissonance the artist, and the collective conscious, confront in the transience of our digital and post fact era. 

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Tulis is a child of the ‘90s, born in the Bible belt of Tennessee. She began sculptural studies at a young age, going on to study the figure and design at a New York atelier, with a focus on historically based techniques and concepts. These academic studies of the live model left the artist looking for a more formal yet uninhibited visual language, leading to a study of objects in museums and spaces across Europe the develop a unique visual documentation system.

Struggling with a desire for the local in a globalized world, Tulis now lives in the Belgian countryside.

Since her last solo exhibition, she is developing a monumental series of oil paintings about the lady of Shalott and is working under a new identity. Work continues in her atelier and residence in Rooigem Castle, Brugge.