Zachary Eastwood-Bloom studied BA Ceramics at Edinburgh College of Art (2000–2004) before graduating from the Royal College of Art in 2010, where he studied Ceramics and Glass. Eastwood-Bloom’s MA project was exhibited as part of the Crafts Council’s touring exhibition Lab Craft: Digital Adventures in Contemporary Craft (2010-2011) and he has exhibited with the V&A, the Royal Academy of Art and the Royal British Society of Sculptors.
In 2016, he was awarded Pangolin London’s sculpture residency and presented his first major solo London exhibition, Divine Principles, in 2017. In 2019, he completed a residency as the first digital artist in residence at the Royal Scottish Ballet for their digital season. In 2024 Pangolin London presented his second solo show, Rewiring, which explored themes of loss, memory, and understanding through innovative combinations of digital technology and traditional sculpture.
Eastwood-Bloom has been awarded numerous prestigious fellowships and bursaries, including a Digital Sculpture Teaching Fellowship at the Slade School of Fine Art, UCL (2015–2016), the Jerwood Makers Award (2015), Jerwood Visual Arts Bursary (2017), and the Inches Carr Bursary (2021). His work is held in public and private collections internationally, and he has completed numerous commissions, including the bronze Artemis (2021) for The Londoner Hotel, Leicester Square and a 2.5 metre high Marble Hera (2024) on Savile Row, London. Public art commissions include The Confusion (2017) commissioned by the Woolf Institute, Cambridge University, Isometric Metropolis (2017), a work that is integrated into the façade and interior of 11-12 Hanover Square, and Forever Blowing Bubbles (2021) at for the former site of West Ham Football group.
Eastwood-Bloom is a founding member of Studio Manifold, a group of artists and designers brought together by a shared interest in material and process, and he lives and works in Glasgow, Scotland.