Sculptor. She served a three-year apprenticeship in France with the sculptor John Skeaping, 1971–4. From 1974–7 Pullan did a diploma course at City and Guilds of London Art School, then from 1977–80 undertook postgraduate studies at Royal Academy Schools. She then worked at her own studios in Sandwich, Kent, and Aberystwyth, Wales. Pullan carried out a number of commissions, including a bronze statue of a horse for Lloyds Bank, Cambridge, and several items for Paul Mellon, including a bronze portrait of him, 1984. Animals were a major feature of Pullan’s work, in various materials, which could be directly representational or highly stylised. She showed at Guildhall, 1976; at RA from 1978; with Cork Street Fine Arts from 1982; with Quinton Green Fine Art from 1984; at John Hunt Redchurch Galleries, 1996; and Frank T Sabin, 2000.

Text source: 'Artists in Britain Since 1945' by David Buckman (Art Dictionaries Ltd, part of Sansom & Company)


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