Suzanne Moxhay
Tim Ellis’s unique approach to art-making crafts a ubiquitous logic from the haphazard and coincidental. By drawing mental and tactile relations between materials and subtly altering their forms, Ellis highlights a sensitive interlacing between artifice and natural order. In Ellis’s work found objects such as plates, vases, and Christmas tree ornaments are reconfigured to become assemblages of totemic significance. His practice revolves around his idea that “a being has a primeval desire to want to belong to something greater than oneself. This ‘wanting to belong’ manifests itself in both the production and consumption of cultural artefacts. Whether in isolation or as a collection, artefacts are dependent on a creator, mediator and audience. His work juxtaposes a culturally diverse collection of objects questioning their value and original purpose. The viewer is forced to engage in the notions of value, authorship and display.
Biography
Born Chester 1981
Lives and works London
Education
2004-2007 Post Graduate Diploma:Fine Art , The Royal Academy Schools
2001-2004 BA Fine Art: Painting, Chelsea College of Art
Solo Exhibitions
2014 FintaRealta, TEN Gallery, Milan
2010 Feralis, BEARSPACE, London
2008 Borderlands, Jerwood Space, London
2008 Borderlands, Tricycle Gallery, London
Selected Group Exhibitions
2014 Under Nature / Andrea Ingenito ContemporaryArt, Naples, Italy; Up and Coming Award/ Kids of Dada, Hoxton ArtGallery, London (Joint winner) Espy Photography Award, Elysium Gallery, Swansea; Slipping Geometries / Bearspace, ART14, London
2013 The Wisdom of Escape, Nancy Victor Gallery, London; TheRoyal Academy Summer Exhibition, Royal Academy of Arts, London; Human Made Things, ASPEX Gallery, Portsmouth; AI/ BEARSPACE , Art Projects,London Art Fair
2012 Aftermath, BEARSPACE, London; Brave New World, Art Projects, London Art Fair
2011 Saatchi’s New Sensations/ The Future Can Wait, Victoria House, London; Anthology, CHARLIE SMITH, London; Afternoon Tea, 54th Venice Biennale, Italy
Royal Academy Editions (Print Commissioned), Royal Academy of Arts; Constructed Landscapes, Royal Academy of Arts; Virtually Real, Stanley & Audrey Burton Gallery, Leeds; Feudal, Art Projects Space, London Art Fair
2010 World Within Worlds, BEARSPACE, London; Intermission, Hoxton Town Hall, London
2009 Earth: Art of Changing World, Royal Academy of Arts, London
Awards and Residencies
2014 Kids of Dada Up and Coming Award (Jointwinner)
2008-2012 Print Fellow, Royal Academy School; Artists Residency, Florence Trust Studios, London; Shortlisted for Bloomberg New Contemporaries
2007 The Dunoyer de Segonzac Award
2006 The Landseer Award; FSA Ambitious Works Award
Press
ArchitecturalDesign, ‘Dualism is Dead: Long Live the Pastoral’ 2013
Art World Magazine- October 2007
The Guardian- July 2008
Digital ArtsArticle- September 2009
A-N- February2010
BBC CultureShow- June 2010