Zachary Eastwood-Bloom graduated from the Royal College of Art in 2010, where he studied Ceramics and Glass. His work explores diverse materials including ceramics, glass, bronze, iron, silver, sound and video. His work references classical imagery, adopts digital aesthetics and uses leading technologies.
For his major solo show 'Divine Principles' at the gallery in 2017 Eastwood-Bloom created a series of eight sculptures, based on the planets of our solar system. The works were visually arresting combinations of the classical, mythological personifications of the planets and the complex surface data from the planets themselves.
Created in a variety of classical materials including marble, bronze and silver, Eastwood-Bloom demonstrated in his exhibition how mastering the digital as a tool in the sculptors practice could revolutionise the production of contemporary sculpture and challenged the perception that digital processes in some way undermines the skill of the artist. Time, space and materials are all precious commodities and the use of digital software in the production of sculpture allowed Eastwood-Bloom to work in an uninhibited, creative way.
Eastwood-Bloom has been selected for numerous public commissions most recently working on a commission for Aviva Investors in collaboration with Campbell Architects to create a work that is integrated into the façade and interior of a new building in Hanover Square, an extensive scheme for the residential development at West Ham, and the Woolf Institute, Cambridge.
To watch a short video about the exhibition 'Divine Principles' click HERE.
To watch a short video about Zachary Eastwood-Bloom making process click HERE.
To see a selected list of works available at the gallery click HERE.
2019 saw Zachary finish his run as the first digital artist-in-residence at the Scottish Ballet. Eastwood-Bloom produced a series of three films called Technology//Mythology//Allegory’, which premiered during the ballet’s ‘Digital Season’ 2019.
Each of the films in Zachary’s Technology//Mythology//Allegory series is based in an Ancient Greek myth. The first of which is The Three Graces.
In this story, Euphrosyne, Aglaea and Thalia (The Three Graces) were daughters of Zeus and were said to represent youth, beauty, elegance. They are rarely represented as individual entities but always together, ’a triple incarnation of grace and beauty - the original ‘influencers’.
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