Zachary Eastwood-Bloom British, b. 1980
MSNGR / Mercury, 2017
Sterling Silver
19 x 14 x 14 cm
7 1/2 x 5 1/2 x 5 1/2 in
7 1/2 x 5 1/2 x 5 1/2 in
Edition 1 of 5
Courtesy of the Artist/ Pangolin London
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This beautiful silver sculpture was exhibited as part of ‘Divine Principles’, a show by Zachary Eastwood-Bloom at Pangolin London having completed a year long sculpture residency with the gallery. Eastwood-Bloom's...
This beautiful silver sculpture was exhibited as part of ‘Divine Principles’, a show by Zachary Eastwood-Bloom at Pangolin London having completed a year long sculpture residency with the gallery. Eastwood-Bloom's work explores the intersection of the physical and immaterial, the historical and the cutting-edge, referencing classical imagery and adopting digital aesthetics to bring these concepts to life. The digital sphere enables artists to take more risks in the creative process.
MSNGR/Mercury was one of two sterling silver pieces, created for ‘Divine Principles’ in which Eastwood-Bloom presented a series of eight new sculptures, based on the planets in our solar system. The works were visually arresting combinations of mythological figures, the personifcations of the planets, and the surfaces of the planets themselves. They were created in a variety of classical materials including marble, bronze and silver using cutting edge digital techniques and the exhibition also included a series of distorted Platonic solids in hand built ceramics.
Zachary Eastwood-Bloom graduated from the Royal College of Art in 2010, where he studied Ceramics and Glass. Exploring the physical and the immaterial the historical and the cutting-edge, Eastwood Bloom references classical imagery, challenges digital aesthetics and uses leading technologies. For one body of work, Eastwood-Bloom used 3d software to scan busts from the British Museum and the Royal Academy of Arts, which he digitally manipulated before 3d printing and casting into clay: the process transitioned from the physical through the digital resulting in the physical. Eastwood-Bloom produced the first sculptural edition for the Royal Academy of Arts and he has been selected for the Jerwood Makers Commission 2015. Recently Eastwood-Bloom has produced a public commission for the London office of Marex Spectron and 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. Zachary Eastwood-Bloom co-founded Studio Manifold and lives and works in Glasgow.
MSNGR/Mercury was one of two sterling silver pieces, created for ‘Divine Principles’ in which Eastwood-Bloom presented a series of eight new sculptures, based on the planets in our solar system. The works were visually arresting combinations of mythological figures, the personifcations of the planets, and the surfaces of the planets themselves. They were created in a variety of classical materials including marble, bronze and silver using cutting edge digital techniques and the exhibition also included a series of distorted Platonic solids in hand built ceramics.
Zachary Eastwood-Bloom graduated from the Royal College of Art in 2010, where he studied Ceramics and Glass. Exploring the physical and the immaterial the historical and the cutting-edge, Eastwood Bloom references classical imagery, challenges digital aesthetics and uses leading technologies. For one body of work, Eastwood-Bloom used 3d software to scan busts from the British Museum and the Royal Academy of Arts, which he digitally manipulated before 3d printing and casting into clay: the process transitioned from the physical through the digital resulting in the physical. Eastwood-Bloom produced the first sculptural edition for the Royal Academy of Arts and he has been selected for the Jerwood Makers Commission 2015. Recently Eastwood-Bloom has produced a public commission for the London office of Marex Spectron and 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. Zachary Eastwood-Bloom co-founded Studio Manifold and lives and works in Glasgow.
Provenance
From the artist
Exhibitions
Masterpiece London, 2018; Zachary Eastwood-Bloom, Divine Principles, 2017, Pangolin LondonMasterpiece Art fair, London 2019.
Literature
Publications
Zachary Eastwood-Bloom, Divine Principles, 2017, Pangolin London