Zachary Eastwood-Bloom

After originally studying ceramics at the Royal College of Art, Eastwood- Bloom’s practice has expanded into working with multiple different media and art forms. Principally he makes sculpture but also furniture, video, dance, sound, photographic works and drawings. Though his work he explores the ways humans attempt to understand the world around them, using methods such as storytelling, religion, science or technology.

Zachary Eastwood-Bloom, Future Heritage 2017 Alumnus

The relationship between contemporary aspects of digital technology and what might be considered traditional, is for Eastwood-Bloom, a particular fascination. He pushes the conventions of what traditional materials, like clay, bronze or marble, do, an approach he pursues with other art forms, such as Ballet or traditional classical sculpture. Through this he is looking at human progress and our transition into a technological animal.

Cloud Gatherer Jupiter By Zachary Eastwood-Bloom

At Future Heritage

For Future Heritage he made a pair of digitally corroded marble tables, one in Marquina black marble and the other in a Carrara white. The two tables were an exact mirror image of each other.

“Future Heritage was a wonderful opportunity to meet lots of people, who have a shared love of well-made objects and designs, from the visitors to the other exhibitors. It was also great to meet all my Future Heritage co-exhibitors, there was a real kinship between us.” - Zachary Eastwood-Bloom

Current work

Recently Zachary Eastwood-Bloom has worked on two significant residencies, one with the Pangolin Edition bronze foundry and the other with the Scottish Ballet. For Pangolin, he created a body of work based on the Greek gods that represent the planets of the Solar System. He located existing statues of the gods and 3D scanned them, before digitally distorting them, using satellite imagery of the planets they represent. For the resulting show, ‘Divine Principals’, the sculptures were then digitally printed and then cast in bronze, silver and cast iron.

More recently he has been the artist in Residence within the Scottish Ballet. Working with different choreographers, he made three films that explore different aspect of our digital society through different characters from Greek mythology.

Zachary Eastwood-Bloom is also working on a large-scale public sculpture commission for the West Ham area of London and a large bronze sculpture for a hotel in Central London.

Information Ate My Table By Zachary Eastwood-Bloom

If you would like to make an enquiry about Zachary Eastwood-Bloom and commissions, get in touch here or visit his website www.zacharyeastwood-bloom.com