Artist Statement

I remember going to church as an 8-year-old and thinking the vicar was talking crap. I did not really understand why everyone appeared to be agreeing with him. This memory was a formative moment.

I always knew I was going to be as an artist. I grew up in a very creative household, my father was an art teacher and my mother taught fashion.  It was in the first few weeks of art school though that I picked up a lump of clay, learning how to make with it was a revelation. I knew from that point that I was someone who thinks and understands through making.

If I were to sum up my practice, it would be about the search for meaning.

I am fascinated by the stories we tell ourselves to manage, justify and rationalise the world around us. Depending on our religious leanings, what side of the political isle we sit on, our star sign, or what tribe we come from, we create our own distorted mythologies to follow. I explore these notions though making sculpture and drawing. I am drawn to sculptural and material traditions that I can then subvert and distort, playing with familiarity and making you question reality.  I am equally taken with the perceived rationality of geometry, it’s structure and shape symbolic of logic and clarity, two attributes I failingly aspire to.

When developing and making my work, exploring the intersection of traditional materials and processes used in concert with digital technologies is something that fascinates me.  I see this reflected in the contemporary society: soft bodies in unison with hardware. Existing and meaning are changing in the digital age influenced by the tools we use, the tools I use reflect aspects of these societal shifts

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Zachary Eastwood-Bloom

b.1980 Dewsbury, England

Zachary lives and works in Glasgow, Scotland.