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Tom Ellis: Dead Hotel

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  11 February 2004

Pamela Self
Pamela Self
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Pamela Self practises as an architect in London
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‘Which way up?’ and ‘What size?’ are recurring questions when viewing the artworks of Tom Ellis. Devices of reflection and re-scaling are extracted from an architectural context and employed with quirky irreverence in this exhibition of models, drawings and ready-mades. Even before his collaboration with architects for this latest show, Tom Ellis' work has shown a fascination with imagined places and structures. Earlier pieces construct, in cheap, clumsy materials, the inaccessible landscapes viewed from a plane window or the envisaged destination of a journey. His explorations of the perceptual effects of scale are sometimes jokey, sometimes profound, but always refreshing and unpretentious.

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Arq reviews
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arq: Architectural Research Quarterly , Volume 7 , Issue 2 , June 2003 , pp. 187
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© 2003 Cambridge University Press

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